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Providing indirect data addressing in an input/output processing system where the indirect data address list is non-contiguous

  • US 8,392,619 B2
  • Filed: 02/10/2011
  • Issued: 03/05/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer program product for providing indirect data addressing at an input/output (I/O) subsystem of an I/O processing system, the computer program product comprising:

  • a non-transitory tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising;

    receiving a control word for an I/O operation, the control word including an indirect data address for data associated with the I/O operation, the indirect data address including a starting location of a list of storage addresses that collectively specify the data;

    forwarding a transport command control block (TCCB) from the channel subsystem to a control unit controlling an I/O device for executing the I/O operation, the TCCB including at least one device control word (DCW) and the TCCB being obtained by a location identified by a transport control word (TCW);

    gathering the data, wherein gathering comprises accessing entries of the list until a last entry is accessed, wherein accessing includes

         1) and

         2);

    1) based on an entry of the list comprising a not-set first flag and a corresponding first storage address, gathering data from a corresponding storage location; and

    2) based on an entry of the list comprising a set first flag and a corresponding second storage address, obtaining a next entry of the list from a second storage location, wherein the second storage address is located contiguously to the first storage address when an entry of the list comprises the not-set first flag, and the second storage address is located non-contiguously to the first storage address when an entry of the list comprises the set first flag; and

    transmitting the gathered data to the control unit in the I/O processing system.

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