Patent ID: 8458438

Claim:
A method for filtering quiesce interruption requests, the method comprising: receiving a shared-memory quiesce request at a processor in a computing system, the computing system comprising a plurality of zones and a shared-memory accessible by the plurality of zones, the request specifying a donor zone, the donor zone comprising a zone, of the plurality of zones, which donated storage for use as the shared-memory, and the processor including a translation look aside buffer one (TLB 1 ); determining whether there are any entries in the TLB 1 corresponding to the shared-memory; determining whether the donor zone is equal to a current zone of the processor; determining whether the processor is currently running in host mode; filtering the shared-memory quiesce request based on determining that there are not any entries in the TLB 1 corresponding to the shared-memory and that the donor zone is not equal to a current zone of the processor and that the processor is not currently running in host mode; and honoring the shared-memory quiesce request based on determining that there are entries in the TLB 1 corresponding to the shared-memory.