International business machines corporation (20250139009). ADDRESS BASED HARDWARE SNOOP LOGIC WITH CONFIGURABLE SNOOPABLE SPACE SETTINGS FOR HARDWARE ASSIST

ADDRESS BASED HARDWARE SNOOP LOGIC WITH CONFIGURABLE SNOOPABLE SPACE SETTINGS FOR HARDWARE ASSIST

Organization Name

international business machines corporation

Inventor(s)

Howard Michael Haynie of Wappingers Falls NY US

Michael James Becht of Poughkeepsie NY US

Mushfiq Us Saleheen of Poughkeepsie NY US

Dan Vangor of Mahopac NY US

Girish Gopala Kurup of Bangalore IN

Luke Hopkins of Peterborough NH US

Bruce Ratcliff of Red Hook NY US

ADDRESS BASED HARDWARE SNOOP LOGIC WITH CONFIGURABLE SNOOPABLE SPACE SETTINGS FOR HARDWARE ASSIST

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250139009 titled 'ADDRESS BASED HARDWARE SNOOP LOGIC WITH CONFIGURABLE SNOOPABLE SPACE SETTINGS FOR HARDWARE ASSIST

Original Abstract Submitted

systems and techniques for snooping input/output (i/o) events in a computing system are described. an example technique includes obtaining a configuration comprising a plurality of snoop space profiles, each snoop space profile indicating a respective range of memory addresses that map to a respective completion queue. the technique also includes monitoring input/output (i/o) traffic exchanged across a communication interface between an i/o adapter and a processor in a computing system, based on the configuration. the technique further includes performing one or more actions to assist processing of the i/o traffic, based in part on the monitoring.