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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2023
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Tsirkin, Yokneam Illit, IL;
David Hildenbrand, Grasbrunn, DE;
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for ballooning related memory allocation techniques for execution environments. An example method may comprise maintaining, by an operating system of a hypervisor, a list of free memory pages associated with the execution environment, wherein each entry in the list references a set of memory pages that are contiguous in a guest address space; receiving, from a management application, a request for guest memory to be made available to the hypervisor, wherein the request comprises a minimum size of guest memory requested and a maximum size of guest memory; and responsive to identifying, by the operating system, in the list of free memory pages, a set of contiguous guest memory pages that is greater than or equal to the minimum size of memory requested, and less than or equal to the maximum size of memory requested, releasing the set of contiguous guest memory pages to the hypervisor.