Patent ID: 11886345
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of recovering from a change in a number of storage control (SC) chips in a computer system, the method comprising:
configuring an address to SC chip unit (A2SU) of each of a plurality of central processing unit (CPU) chips based on a number of valid SC chips in the computer system;
in response to detecting a change in the number of valid SC chips, pausing operation of the computer system including operation of a cache of each of the plurality of CPU chips;
while operation of the computer system is paused, reconfiguring the A2SU in each of the plurality of CPU chips based on the change in the number of valid SC chips; and
in response to reconfiguring the A2SU, resuming operation of the computer system.