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Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2021
Applicants:

Ati Technologies Ulc, Markham, CA;

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sean T. White, Boxborough, MA (US);

Philip Ng, Markham, CA;

Assignees:

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC, Markham, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/0811 (2016.01); G06F 12/0882 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45545 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 12/063 (2013.01); G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0882 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for providing page migration of pages among tiered memories identify frequently accessed memory pages in each memory tier and generate page hotness ranking information indicating how frequently memory pages are being accessed. Methods and apparatus provide the page hotness ranking information to an operating system or hypervisor depending on which is used in the system, the operating system or hypervisor issues a page move command to a hardware data mover, based on the page hotness ranking information and the hardware data mover moves a memory page to a different memory tier in response to the page move command from the operating system.


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