Measurement facility for adapter functions

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8650335
APP PUB NO 20110320643A1
SERIAL NO

12821193

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A measurement facility is provided for capturing and presenting fine-grained usage information for adapter functions in an input/output subsystem. Adapter specific input/output traffic is tracked on a per function basis and the results are dynamically presented to the user. This information is useful for performance tuning, load balancing and usage based charging, as examples.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Brice,, Jr Frank W Hurley, US 9 147
Craddock, David New Paltz, US 55 1590
Glendening, Beth A Poughkeepsie, US 41 362
Gregg, Thomas A Highland, US 185 3829
Lais, Eric N Tillson, US 70 712
Szwed, Peter K Rhinebeck, US 68 1292
Wilkins, Steven G Berkshire, US 1 5

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