Patent ID: 8732264

Claim:
A method for performing logical partition (LPAR)-to-LPAR communication in a network computing environment, wherein read or write requests to different memory areas of a single computer memory are controlled by a storage control element, which requests are issued by different multiple operating systems using a general network transfer format, and wherein a request is sent by a first operating system to said storage control element, where the request is executed with a processor instruction, and wherein a result of said request is received by the same or a second operating system, the method comprising: sending a modified processor instruction associated with the request to the storage control element which implements an execution of said modified instruction synchronously performed to the sending of said modified instruction, without buffering the request in an outbound queue, the execution comprising sending data associated with the modified instruction to an inbound queue comprising a receive buffer, the inbound queue associated with the same or the second operating system.