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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2016
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joel Dylan Coburn, Mountain View, CA (US);
Albert Borchers, Aptos, CA (US);
Christopher Lyle Johnson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert S. Sprinkle, San Jose, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a request to access, from a main memory, data contained in a first portion of a first page of data, the first page of data having a first page size; initiating a page fault based on determining that the first page of data is not stored in the main memory; allocating a portion of the main memory equivalent to the first page size; transferring the first portion of the first page of data from the secondary memory to the allocated portion of the main memory without transferring the entire first page of data; and updating a first page table entry associated with the first portion of the first page of data to point to a location of the allocated portion of the main memory to which the first portion of the first page of data is transferred.