Software transparent expansion of the number of fabrics coupling multiple processsing nodes of a computer system

摘要

The number of fabrics coupling a plurality of processing nodes of a computer system is expanded from a first fabric and second fabric known to the I/O services layer residing at each processing nodes to a first and second plurality of fabrics. A current mapping is maintained at each of the processing nodes between the first fabric and one of the first plurality of fabrics and between the second fabric and one of the second plurality of fabrics for each of the processing nodes. Messages are transmitted by one or of the plurality of processing nodes acting as a source node to one or more of the other processing nodes as a destination node over one of the first and second plurality of fabrics in accordance with the current mapping for the destination node residing at the source node and based on which of the first and second fabrics are specified in the requests of the I/O services layers.