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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2019
Memverge, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Ronald S. Niles, San Jose, CA (US);
Yue Li, Fremont, CA (US);
MemVerge, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique is described for handling forks in operations mapped to direct access persistent memory (PMEM). In an example embodiment, access by a parent operation of an allocated portion of PMEM is monitored to determine a portion of the allocated PMEM that is in use by the parent operation. In response to a fork call indicating that the parent operation will copy itself to create a child operation, a clone of the portion of allocated PMEM is created to facilitate processing of the child operation. The cloned portion of PMEM can be created just before the child operation is created (i.e., pre-fork) or after the child operation is created (i.e., post-fork). To create the clone post-fork, a user-space page fault notification mechanism can be implemented to detect a next buffer access by the child operation and create the clone in response to the detected access.