Invention Application
- Patent Title: COST-AWARE PAGE SWAP AND REPLACEMENT IN A MEMORY
- Patent Title (中): COST-AWARE页面交换和在存储器中的替换
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Application No.: US14583343Application Date: 2014-12-26
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Publication No.: US20160188490A1Publication Date: 2016-06-30
- Inventor: Ahmad A. Samih
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Main IPC: G06F12/12
- IPC: G06F12/12 ; G11C7/10 ; G06F12/08

Abstract:
Memory eviction that recognizes not all evictions have an equal cost on system performance. A management device keeps a weight and/or a count associated with each portion of memory. Each memory portion is associated with a source agent that generates requests to the memory portion. The management device adjusts the weight by a cost factor indicating a latency impact that could occur if the evicted memory portion is again requested after being evicted. The latency impact is a latency impact for the associated source agent to replace the memory portion. In response to detecting an eviction trigger for the memory device, the management device can identify a memory portion having a most extreme weight, such as a highest or lowest value weight. The management device replaces the identified memory portion with a memory portion that triggered the eviction.
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