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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Adrian Michaud, Carlisle, MA (US);
Roy E. Clark, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Kenneth J. Taylor, Franklin, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01); G06F 12/0868 (2016.01); G06F 12/0831 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0868 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0835 (2013.01); G11C 7/1072 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6046 (2013.01); G06F 2212/621 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for providing region zero-fill on demand for tiered memory including a first region in a first memory tier having a page cache in physical memory, where virtual memory includes a mmap of the first region. An input can be controlled between zeroes and the first region to the page cache.