Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Access tracking mechanism for hybrid memories in a unified virtual system
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Application No.: US14133488Application Date: 2013-12-18
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Publication No.: US09830262B2Publication Date: 2017-11-28
- Inventor: Jerome F. Duluk, Jr. , Cameron Buschardt , James Leroy Deming , Brian Fahs
- Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Artegis Law Group, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F11/30 ; G06F11/34

Abstract:
Embodiments of the approaches disclosed herein include a subsystem that includes an access tracking mechanism configured to monitor access operations directed to a first memory and a second memory. The access tracking mechanism detects an access operation generated by a processor for accessing a first memory page residing on the second memory. The access tracking mechanism further determines that the first memory page is included in a first subset of memory pages residing on the second memory. The access tracking mechanism further locates, within a reference vector, a reference bit that corresponds to the first memory page, and sets the reference bit. One advantage of the present invention is that memory pages in a hybrid system migrate as needed to increase overall memory performance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140281264A1 MIGRATION COUNTERS FOR HYBRID MEMORIES IN A UNIFIED VIRTUAL MEMORY SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2014-09-18
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