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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2017
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kiran Tati, Fremont, CA (US);
Preeti Agarwal, San Jose, CA (US);
Julien Freche, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xavier Deguillard, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Ishan Banerjee, Santa Clara, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for using non-volatile random access memory (NVM) as volatile random access memory (RAM) are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system can detect that an amount of free space in a volatile RAM of the computer system has become low and, in response, can add one or more memory pages from an unused portion of an NVM of the computer system to the system's volatile RAM pool. Conversely, the computer system can detect that an amount of free space in the NVM has become low and, in response, can return the one or more memory pages from the volatile RAM pool back to the NVM.