Providing extended measurement data in an I/O processing system

• US 8,001,298 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2008
• Issued: 08/16/2011
• 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): Kindred; Alford W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Unelus; Ernest
• Application Number:
  US12/030,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20090210582A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,279 Days
• Field of Search: 710/115, 710/3, 710/4, 710/20, 711/1, 711/100, 711/101
• US Class Current: 710/58
• 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 providing extended measurement word data from a control unit to a channel subsystem of an I/O processing system are disclosed. 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 receiving a command message from the channel subsystem at the control unit, and initiating a timing calculation sequence of a plurality of time values in response to receiving the command message at the control unit. The computer readable program code logic also populates extended measurement word data at the control unit including the plurality of time values, and outputs the extended measurement word data from the control unit to the channel subsystem.

Claims

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

receiving a command message from the channel subsystem at the control unit, wherein the command message is a transport command information unit message including a transport command control block (TCCB), the TCCB including at least one device control word (DCW) and having a location identified by a transport control word (TCW);

initiating at the control unit a timing calculation sequence of a plurality of time values in response to receiving the command message at the control unit;

storing the plurality of time values as extended measurement word data at the control unit in a response message; and

outputting the response message including the extended measurement word data from the control unit to the channel subsystem.

2. The article of manufacture of claim 1 wherein the extended measurement word data is output in an extended status section of a transport response information unit message.

3. The article of manufacture of claim 2 wherein the extended status section of the transport response information unit message further includes a transport status header (TSH) and a transport status area (TSA), the TSH defining a length of the extended status section and a configurable type code defining a format of the TSA.

4. The article of manufacture of claim 3 wherein the type code is an I/O status code indicating that the TSA contains the extended measurement word data, and further wherein the extended status section includes a check word calculated on the TSH and the TSA.

5. The article of manufacture of claim 1 wherein initiating the timing calculation sequence further comprises operating one or more control unit timers to calculate the plurality of time values.

6. The article of manufacture of claim 5 wherein the plurality of time values includes at least one of a total device time parameter, a defer time parameter, a queue time parameter, a device busy time parameter, and a device active only time parameter.

7. The article of manufacture of claim 6 wherein the total device time parameter is calculated as time elapsed between receiving the command message and outputting the extended measurement word data, the defer time parameter is calculated as time accumulated by the control unit working with an I/O device, the queue time parameter is calculated as time that an I/O operation is queued at the control unit exclusive of waiting time for a I/O device that is reserved to a different operating system (OS), the device busy time parameter is calculated as time that the command message is queued at the control unit waiting on a device busy caused by the I/O device being reserved by a different OS, and the device active only time parameter is calculated as time elapsed 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.

8. The article of manufacture of claim 1 wherein the command message is a transport command information unit message, including a transport command control block (TCCB) as part of a transport control word (TCW) channel program.

9. An apparatus for providing extended measurement word data from a control unit to a channel subsystem of an input/output (I/O) processing system, the apparatus comprising:

a control unit in communication with a channel subsystem of an I/O processing system, the control unit capable of commanding and determining status of an I/O device, the control unit configured to perform a method comprising;

receiving a command message from the channel subsystem at the control unit for the I/O device, wherein the command message is a transport command information unit message including a transport command control block (TCCB), the TCCB including at least one device control word (DCW) and having a location identified by a transport control word (TCW);

initiating at the control unit a timing calculation sequence of a plurality of time values in response to receiving the command message at the control unit;

storing the plurality of time values as extended measurement word data at the control unit in a response message; and

outputting the response message including the extended measurement word data from the control unit to the channel subsystem.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the extended measurement word data is output in an extended status section of a transport response information unit message.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the extended status section of the transport response information unit message further includes a transport status header (TSH) and a transport status area (TSA), the TSH defining a length of the extended status section and a configurable type code defining a format of the TSA.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the type code is an I/O status code indicating that the TSA contains the extended measurement word data, and further wherein the extended status section includes a check word calculated on the TSH and the TSA.

13. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein initiating the timing calculation sequence further comprises operating one or more control unit timers to calculate the plurality of time values.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 wherein the plurality of time values includes at least one of a total device time parameter, a defer time parameter, a queue time parameter, a device busy time parameter, and a device active only time parameter.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the total device time parameter is calculated as time elapsed between receiving the command message and outputting the extended measurement word data, the defer time parameter is calculated as time accumulated by the control unit working with the I/O device, the queue time parameter is calculated as time that an I/O operation is queued at the control unit exclusive of waiting time for a I/O device that is reserved to a different operating system (OS), the device busy time parameter is calculated as time that the command message is queued at the control unit waiting on a device busy caused by the I/O device being reserved by a different OS, and the device active only time parameter is calculated as time elapsed 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.

16. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the command message is a transport command information unit message, including a transport command control block (TCCB) as part of a transport control word (TCW) channel program.

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

receiving a command message from the channel subsystem at the control unit, wherein the command message is a transport command information unit message including a transport command control block (TCCB), the TCCB including at least one device control word (DCW) and having a location identified by a transport control word (TCW);

initiating at the control unit a timing calculation sequence of a plurality of time values in response to receiving the command message at the control unit;

storing the plurality of time values as extended measurement word data at the control unit in a response message; and

outputting the response message including the extended measurement word data from the control unit to the channel subsystem.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein initiating the timing calculation sequence further comprises operating one or more control unit timers to calculate the plurality of time values, and the plurality of time values includes at least one of a total device time parameter, a defer time parameter, a queue time parameter, a device busy time parameter, and a device active only time parameter.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the total device time parameter is calculated as time elapsed between receiving the command message and outputting the extended measurement word data, the defer time parameter is calculated as time accumulated by the control unit working with an I/O device, the queue time parameter is calculated as time that an I/O operation is queued at the control unit exclusive of waiting time for a I/O device that is reserved to a different operating system (OS), the device busy time parameter is calculated as time that the command message is queued at the control unit waiting on a device busy caused by the I/O device being reserved by a different OS, and the device active only time parameter is calculated as time elapsed 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.

20. The method of claim 17 wherein the command message is a transport command information unit message, including a transport command control block (TCCB) as part of a transport control word (TCW) channel program, and the extended measurement word data is output in an extended status section of a transport response information unit message.