AIX XIVE = eXternal Interrupt Virtualisation Engine

Published: 15 July 2020
on channel: Nigel Griffiths
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XIVE is an AIX Features recently enabled on POWER9 servers, Firmware 940 and AIX 7.2 TL4 sp2 and above, which enhances the interrupt handling for virtualised servers and saved CPU cycles that can be used to run the applications faster.

Commands and links from the video
lsattr -El sys0 -a ex_intr_virt
chdev -l sys0 -a ex_intr_virt=true
echo d opic_type | kdb | grep opic | tail -1 | awk ’{print $2}’
lparstat -H | grep h_xirr

FW940 Release notes: https://delivery04.dhe.ibm.com/sar/CM...

Article on XIVE with the IEEE
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/...

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