Patent ID: 8874805

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a 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: responsive to a second processor identifying that a flag has been set by a first processor requesting assistance in completing an I/O operation, copy, by the second processor, an I/O response from a first I/O response data structure associated with the first processor to a second I/O response data structure associated with the second processor; delete, by the second processor, the I/O response from the first I/O response data structure; clear, by the second processor, the flag; process, by the second processor, the I/O operation by addressing the I/O response in the second I/O response data structure; and responsive to completing the I/O operation, delete, by the second processor, the I/O response from the second I/O response data structure.