Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Identification of page sharing opportunities within large pages
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Application No.: US15051940Application Date: 2016-02-24
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Publication No.: US09977747B2Publication Date: 2018-05-22
- Inventor: Yury Baskakov , Alexander Thomas Garthwaite , Rajesh Venkatasubramanian , Irene Zhang , Seongbeom Kim , Nikhil Bhatia , Kiran Tati
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/121 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F12/02 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F12/1027
Abstract:
Memory performance in a computer system that implements large page mapping is improved even when memory is scarce by identifying page sharing opportunities within the large pages at the granularity of small pages and breaking up the large pages so that small pages within the large page can be freed up through page sharing. In addition, the number of small page sharing opportunities within the large pages can be used to estimate the total amount of memory that could be reclaimed through page sharing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160170906A1 IDENTIFICATION OF PAGE SHARING OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN LARGE PAGES Public/Granted day:2016-06-16
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