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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBrian Mitchell Bass, Bartholomew Blaner, Jay Gerald Heaslip, Robert Dov Herzl, Kenneth Anthony Lauricella, Ross Boyd Leavens
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A system and method of terminating processing requests dispatched to a coprocessor hardware accelerator in a multi-processor computer system based on matching various fields in the request made to the coprocessor to identify the process to be terminated. A kill command is initiated by a write operation to a coprocessor block kill register and has match enable and value for each field in the coprocessor request to be terminated. Enabled fields may have one or more values associated with a single request or multiple requests for the same coprocessor. At least one match enable must be set to initiate a kill request. A process kill active signal prevents other coprocessor jobs from moving between operational stages in the coprocessor hardware accelerator. Processing jobs that are idle or do not match the fields with match enables set signal done with no match and continue processing. Processing jobs that do match the fields with match enables set are terminated and signal done with match. When all processing jobs have signaled done, a done bit is set in the coprocessor block kill register to indicate completion of the kill to the initiating software. The register also holds the match status of each processing job.
A method of terminating a processing job assigned to a coprocessor hardware accelerator in a distributed computer system having multiple processing elements and memory resources communicating through a bus, comprising:
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