Abstract:
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with computing that include usage and backup of persistent memory are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus for computing may comprise one or more processors and persistent memory to host operation of one or more virtual machines; and one or more page tables to store a plurality of mappings to map a plurality of virtual memory pages of a virtualization of the persistent memory of the one or more virtual machines to a plurality of physical memory pages of the persistent memory allocated to the one or more virtual machines. The apparatus may further include a memory manager to manage accesses of the persistent memory that includes a copy-on-write mechanism to service write instructions that address virtual memory pages mapped to physical memory pages that are marked as read-only. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
Abstract:
Systems and techniques for memory and resource management in a virtual computing environment are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, an apparatus for memory management in a virtual computing environment may include: a storage device; memory page comparison logic, coupled to the storage device, to determine that a first memory page of instructions, stored in the storage device, for a guest machine in the virtual computing environment is identical to a second memory page of instructions, stored in the storage device, for a host machine in the virtual computing environment, wherein the guest machine is hosted by the host machine; and merge logic, coupled to the memory page comparison logic, to, in response to a determination that the first memory page is identical to the second memory page, map the first memory page to the second memory page. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.