Patent ID: 9286171
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to: detect that an imminent failure of a first adapter is likely to occur; initiate a failover priming operation in the first adapter and a second adapter in response to detecting the imminent failure, wherein the failover priming operation configures ingress and egress buffers of the second adapter to have a similar configuration to ingress and egress buffers of the first adapter; and migrate processing of ingress data traffic to the second adapter prior to failure of the first adapter such that the first adapter processes egress data traffic from the data processing system and the second adapter processes ingress data traffic to the data processing system.