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Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2022
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Arunachalam Ramanathan, Union City, CA (US);

Yury Baskakov, Newton, MA (US);

Anurekh Saxena, Newcastle, WA (US);

Ying Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);

Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael Robert Stunes, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0676 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of preserving the contiguity of large pages of a workload during migration of the workload from a source host to a destination host includes the steps of: detecting at the destination host, receipt of a small page of zeros from the source host, wherein, at the source host, the small page is part of one of the large pages of the workload; and upon detecting the receipt of the small page of zeros, storing, at the destination host, all zeros in a small page that is part of one of the large pages of the workload.


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