Patent ID: 7380001

Claim:
A partitioned computer system for containing and handling a packet processing failure in a failed domain, comprising: a resource definition table for storing a status of at least one allocated resource dynamically shared by at least one domain, each resource associated with a domain ID identifying the domain to which the resource is allocated; and a system manager having write and read access to the resource definition table, the system manager: entering a quiesce mode for each node in each domain, in response to the packet processing failure in the system, identifying an allocated resource in a resource definition table, identifying the failed domain associated with the allocated resource in the resource definition table, identifying at least one non-failed domain as having no allocated resource associated with it in the resource definition table, exiting the quiesce mode for the non-failed domain, deallocating the allocated resource associated with the failed domain in the resource definition table; and selectively resetting a hardware state in a deadlocked domain by reinitializing the system.