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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2003
Douglas Vincent Larson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Richard Glen Fowles, Meadow Vista, CA (US);
Blaine Douglas Gaither, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Benjamin Daniel Osecky, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Douglas Vincent Larson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Richard Glen Fowles, Meadow Vista, CA (US);
Blaine Douglas Gaither, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Benjamin Daniel Osecky, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of allocating memory operates to avoid overlapping hot spots in cache that can ordinarily cause cache thrashing. This method includes steps of determining a spacer size, reserving a spacer block of memory from a memory pool, and allocating memory at a location following the spacer block. In an alternative embodiment, the spacer size is determined randomly in a range of allowable spacer size. In other alternative embodiments, spacers are allocated based upon size of a previously allocated memory block.