International Business Machines Corporation

Jenifer Hopper

Mark Alan Peloquin

Steven L Pratt

Karl Milton Rister

A method for a wireless charging receptacle is provided in the illustrative embodiments. An enclosure having a shape and a plurality of sides is formed to at least partially enclose a device while charging a rechargeable power source in the device. An opening is formed in the enclosure. the opening is located on a first side from the plurality of sides. The first side has a surface area less than a second surface area of a second side in the plurality of sides, the second surface area being largest of all surface areas of all sides in the plurality of sides. A wireless charging mechanism is configured relative to at least one of (i) the second side and (ii) a third side of the enclosure, wherein the wireless charging mechanism wirelessly supplies energy to a second wireless charging mechanism coupled with the device.

Wireless charging receptacle

Embodiments of the invention relate to mitigating page eviction from cache memory. Pages of data in the cache are compressed, and are periodically swapped to a physical storage device to create space in the cache for additional pages. To avoid the impact of eviction latencies, an asynchronous thread scanning process scans the cache for any pages that are not committed to the storage device, decompresses a selected one of the pages, and asynchronously writes the decompressed page copy to the physical storage device. The compressed copy of the selected page remains in the cache during the asynchronous write with an indicator for the page set to convey that a replica of the page has been written to physical storage, allowing for efficient eviction from the in-memory pool at a later time.

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Jenifer Hopper