Patent ID: 9086905
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: G01S,G06F,G11B,H03L,H04B,H04J,H04L,H04M,H04N,H04Q,H04W,Y02D,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of facilitating data transfer in a pageable mode virtual environment, said method comprising: obtaining by a processor of the pageable mode virtual environment an indication of a buffer to be used in data transfer, the buffer being associated with a guest program operating in a pageable mode virtual machine of the pageable mode virtual environment; performing by the processor processing associated with the buffer to enable data transfer, said performing being absent intervention of a host of the pageable mode virtual environment, and including pinning one or more pages of the buffer in physical storage; determining whether at least one page of the one or more pages of the buffer pinned to physical storage is to be unpinned; and unpinning the at least one page, based on the determining indicating the at least one page is to be unpinned.