Vmware, Inc.

Nikhil Bhatia

Alexander T Garthwaite

Rajesh Venkatasubramanian

Kiran Tati

Yury Baskakov

Seongbeom Kim

Irene Zhang

Kalyan Saladi

Aravind Pavuluri

A computer implemented method receives a request to run a group of instruction sets. Each instruction set is associated with a sequence of common instructions. The method executes the sequence of common instructions in a first virtual machine (VM) to generate a result which is stored in a first memory associated with the first VM. The method then clones a second VM that shares the first memory with the first VM. The method continues by executing a first instruction set in the second VM. Since the second VM shares memory with the first VM, the second VM can use the result stored in the first memory and the sequence of common instructions does not need to be executed on the second VM. In one example, the result is a run-time model of a circuit and the second VM runs the first instruction set on the run-time model.

Techniques for improving computational throughput by using virtual machines

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.

Identification of page sharing opportunities within large pages

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