Extended measurement word determination at a channel subsystem of an I/O processing system

• US 7,937,507 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2008
• Issued: 05/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kalos, Matthew J., Yudenfriend, Harry M., Huang, Catherine C., Flanagan, John R., Ricci, Louis W., Bendyk, Mark P., Hathorn, Roger G., Sittmann, Gustav E., Casper, Daniel F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsai; Henry W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mamo; Elias
• Application Number:
  US12/030,920
• Publication Number:
  US 20090210570A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• Field of Search: 710/18, 710/33, 702/106
• US Class Current: 710/33
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/124 where hardware is a sequential transfer control unit, e.g. microprocessor, peripheral processor or state-machine

Abstract

An article of manufacture, an apparatus, and a method for determining an extended measurement word at a channel subsystem of an I/O processing system using data from a control unit are provided. The article of manufacture includes at least one computer usable medium having computer readable program code logic. The computer readable program code logic performs a method including sending a command message to the control unit, and receiving a transport response information unit message at the channel subsystem in response to sending the command message to the control unit. The computer readable program code logic additionally extracts a plurality of time values from the transport response information unit message as calculated by the control unit, calculates an extended measurement word as a function of the time values, and writes the extended measurement word to computer readable memory in the I/O processing system.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture comprising at least one computer usable medium having computer readable program code logic to determine an extended measurement word at a channel subsystem of an input/output (I/O) processing system using data from a control unit, the computer readable program code logic for performing a method comprising:

sending a command message to the control unit;

receiving a transport response information unit message at the channel subsystem in response to sending the command message to the control unit;

extracting a plurality of time values from the transport response information unit message as calculated by the control unit;

calculating an extended measurement word as a function of the extracted time values; and

writing the calculated extended measurement word to computer readable memory in the I/O processing system.

2. The article of manufacture of claim 1 wherein the computer readable program code logic performing the method further comprises:

storing a start subchannel time prior to sending the command message to the control unit;

storing an ending status time upon identifying an ending status in the transport response information unit message; and

determining a total system I/O operation time at the channel subsystem as a time difference value between the ending status time and the start subchannel time.

3. The article of manufacture of claim 2 wherein the extracted time values include a total device time parameter indicating elapsed time from when the control unit received the command message until the control unit transmitted the transport response information unit message for a device I/O operation;

and

the calculated extended measurement word includes a function pending time calculated as a time difference value between the total system I/O operation time and the total device time parameter.

4. The article of manufacture of claim 1 wherein the computer readable program code logic performing the method further comprises:

storing a sending time at the channel subsystem upon sending the command message to the control unit;

storing a receiving time upon receiving the transport response information unit message at the channel subsystem; and

determining a total channel time at the channel subsystem as a time difference value between the receiving time and the sending time.

5. The article of manufacture of claim 4 wherein the extracted time values include a total device time parameter indicating elapsed time from when the control unit received the command message until the control unit transmitted the transport response information unit message for a device I/O operation;

and

the calculated extended measurement word includes an initial command response time calculated as a time difference value between the total channel time and the total device time parameter.

6. The article of manufacture of claim 1 wherein the extracted time values include:

a total device time parameter indicating elapsed time from when the control unit received the command message until the control unit transmitted the transport response information unit message for a device I/O operation;

a defer time parameter indicating control unit defer time;

a device busy time parameter indicating elapsed time that the command message was queued at the control unit waiting on a reserved device; and

a device active only time parameter indicating elapsed time between a channel end (CE) and a device end (DE) at the control unit in response to the control unit holding the CE until the DE is available, and further wherein the calculated extended measurement word includes a device connect time calculated as a time difference value between the total device time parameter, the defer time parameter, the device busy time parameter and the device active only time parameter.

7. The article of manufacture of claim 1 wherein the extracted time values include a defer time parameter indicating control unit defer time and a queue time parameter indicating elapsed time that an I/O operation was queued at the control unit excluding queue time for a reserved device, and further wherein the calculated extended measurement word includes a device disconnect time set equal to the defer time parameter and a control unit queuing time set equal to the queue time parameter.

8. The article of manufacture of claim 1 wherein the computer readable program code logic performing the method further comprises:

determining an elapsed time between a channel end (CE) and a device end (DE) at the channel subsystem, wherein the extracted time values include a device active only time parameter, and the calculated extended measurement word includes a device active only time calculated as a time summation value of the elapsed time and the device active only time parameter.

9. The article of manufacture of claim 1 wherein the extracted time values include a device busy time parameter indicating elapsed time that the command message was queued at the control unit waiting on a reserved device;

and

the calculated extended measurement word includes a device busy time calculated as a time summation value of the device busy time parameter and additional device busy time as determined by the channel subsystem.

10. The article of manufacture of claim 1 wherein the extracted time values are extracted from an extended status section of the transport response information unit message.

11. An apparatus for determining an extended measurement word in an input/output (I/O) processing system, the apparatus comprising:

a channel subsystem in communication with a control unit, the channel subsystem configured to perform a method comprising;

sending a command message to the control unit;

receiving a transport response information unit message at the channel subsystem in response to sending the command message to the control unit;

extracting a plurality of time values from the transport response information unit message as calculated by the control unit;

calculating an extended measurement word as a function of the extracted time values; and

writing the calculated extended measurement word to computer readable memory in the I/O processing system.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the method further comprises:

storing a start subchannel time prior to sending the command message to the control unit;

storing an ending status time upon identifying an ending status in the transport response information unit message; and

determining a total system I/O operation time at the channel subsystem as a time difference value between the ending status time and the start subchannel time.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein the extracted time values include a total device time parameter indicating elapsed time from when the control unit received the command message until the control unit transmitted the transport response information unit message for a device I/O operation;

and

the calculated extended measurement word includes a function pending time calculated as a time difference value between the total system I/O operation time and the total device time parameter.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the channel subsystem further performs:

storing a sending time at the channel subsystem upon sending the command message to the control unit;

storing a receiving time upon receiving the transport response information unit message at the channel subsystem; and

determining a total channel time at the channel subsystem as a time difference value between the receiving time and the sending time.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the extracted time values include a total device time parameter indicating elapsed time from when the control unit received the command message until the control unit transmitted the transport response information unit message for a device I/O operation;

and

the calculated extended measurement word includes an initial command response time calculated as a time difference value between the total channel time and the total device time parameter.

16. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the extracted time values include:

a total device time parameter indicating elapsed time from when the control unit received the command message until the control unit transmitted the transport response information unit message for a device I/O operation;

a defer time parameter indicating control unit defer time;

a device busy time parameter indicating elapsed time that the command message was queued at the control unit waiting on a reserved device; and

a device active only time parameter indicating elapsed time between a channel end (CE) and a device end (DE) at the control unit in response to the control unit holding the CE until the DE is available, and further wherein the calculated extended measurement word includes a device connect time calculated as a time difference value between the total device time parameter, the defer time parameter, the device busy time parameter and the device active only time parameter.

17. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the extracted time values include a defer time parameter indicating control unit defer time and a queue time parameter indicating elapsed time that an I/O operation was queued at the control unit excluding queue time for a reserved device, and further wherein the calculated extended measurement word includes a device disconnect time set equal to the defer time parameter and a control unit queuing time set equal to the queue time parameter.

18. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the channel subsystem includes a channel subsystem timer, and the channel subsystem further performs:

determining an elapsed time between a channel end (CE) and a device end (DE) at the channel subsystem using the channel subsystem timer, wherein the extracted time values include a device active only time parameter, and the calculated extended measurement word includes a device active only time calculated as a time summation value of the elapsed time and the device active only time parameter.

19. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the extracted time values include a device busy time parameter indicating elapsed time that the command message was queued at the control unit waiting on a reserved device;

and

the calculated extended measurement word includes a device busy time calculated as a time summation value of the device busy time parameter and additional device busy time as determined by the channel subsystem.

20. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the extracted time values are extracted from an extended status section of the transport response information unit message.

21. A method for determining an extended measurement word at a channel subsystem of an input/output (I/O) processing system using data from a control unit, the method comprising:

sending a command message to the control unit;

receiving a transport response information unit message at the channel subsystem in response to sending the command message to the control unit;

extracting a plurality of time values from the transport response information unit message as calculated by the control unit;

calculating an extended measurement word as a function of the extracted time values; and

writing the calculated extended measurement word to computer readable memory in the I/O processing system.

22. The method of claim 21 further comprising:

storing a start subchannel time prior to sending the command message to the control unit;

storing an ending status time upon identifying an ending status in the transport response information unit message; and

determining a total system I/O operation time at the channel subsystem as a time difference value between the ending status time and the start subchannel time, wherein the extracted time values include a total device time parameter and the calculated extended measurement word includes a function pending time calculated as a time difference value between the total system I/O operation time and the total device time parameter.

23. The method of claim 21 further comprising:

storing a sending time at the channel subsystem upon sending the command message to the control unit;

storing a receiving time upon receiving the transport response information unit message at the channel subsystem; and

determining a total channel time at the channel subsystem as a time difference value between the receiving time and the sending time, wherein the extracted time values include a total device time parameter, a defer time parameter, a device busy time parameter and a device active only time parameter, and the calculated extended measurement word includes a device connect time calculated as a time difference value between the total device time parameter, the defer time parameter, the device busy time parameter and the device active only time parameter.

24. An article of manufacture comprising at least one computer usable medium having computer readable program code logic to determine an extended measurement word at a channel subsystem of an input/output (I/O) processing system using data from a control unit, the computer readable program code logic for performing a method comprising:

sending a transport command information unit message including a transport command control block (TCCB) as part of a transport control word (TCW) channel program to the control unit for execution;

receiving a transport response information unit message at the channel subsystem in response to sending the transport command information unit message to the control unit, wherein the transport response information unit message includes a status section and an extended status section, the extended status section further including a transport status header (TSH) defining characteristics of a transport status area (TSA) of the extended status section;

extracting a plurality of time values from the extended status section of the transport response information unit message as calculated by the control unit using one or more control unit timers, wherein the extracted time values include at least one of a total device time parameter, a defer time parameter, a queue time parameter, a device busy time parameter, a device active only time parameter, and appended device sense data;

calculating an extended measurement word as a function of the extracted time values, wherein the calculated extended measurement word includes at least one of a device connect time, a function pending time, a device disconnect time, a control unit queuing time, a device active only time, a device busy time, and an initial command response time; and

writing the calculated extended measurement word to computer readable memory in the I/O processing system.

25. An apparatus for determining an extended measurement word in an input/output (I/O) processing system, the apparatus comprising:

a channel subsystem in communication with a control unit, the control unit capable of controlling a device, the channel subsystem configured to perform a method comprising;

sending a transport command information unit message including a transport command control block (TCCB) as part of a transport control word (TCW) channel program to the control unit for execution;

receiving a transport response information unit message at the channel subsystem in response to sending the transport command information unit message to the control unit, wherein the transport response information unit message includes a status section and an extended status section, the extended status section further including a transport status header (TSH) defining characteristics of a transport status area (TSA) of the extended status section;

extracting a plurality of time values from the extended status section of the transport response information unit message as calculated by the control unit using one or more control unit timers, wherein the extracted time values include at least one of a total device time parameter, a defer time parameter, a queue time parameter, a device busy time parameter, a device active only time parameter, and appended device sense data;

calculating an extended measurement word as a function of the extracted time values, wherein the calculated extended measurement word includes at least one of a device connect time, a function pending time, a device disconnect time, a control unit queuing time, a device active only time, a device busy time, and an initial command response time; and

writing the calculated extended measurement word to computer readable memory in the I/O processing system.