Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Zhixiang Mao

Yang Shi

Dongliang Xue

Xian Zhou

Linpeng Huang

The invention provides a hot plug method and device for a byte-addressable persistent memory, which includes hot-add and hot-remove; wherein the hot-add includes physical add and logical add, and the hot-remove includes logical remove and physical remove; the physical add is used for converting the memory from an uncharged raw media into a manageable block of an operating system; the logical add is used for converting the memory from the manageable block of the operating system into a memory device which capable of mapping a virtual address; the logical remove is used for converting the memory device which capable of mapping the virtual address into the manageable block of the operating system; and the physical remove is used for converting the memory from the manageable block of the operating system into the uncharged raw media. The method and device provided in the invention are suitable for scheduling and deployment the byte addressable persistent memory resource on any computer architecture and have a sound market outlook and application value.

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Zhixiang Mao