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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2007
Yu-cheng Hsu, Tucson, AZ (US);
John Norbert Mccauley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Cheng-chung Song, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Griswold Sherman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Yu-Cheng Hsu, Tucson, AZ (US);
John Norbert McCauley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Cheng-Chung Song, Tucson, AZ (US);
William Griswold Sherman, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein in certain embodiments, a plurality of logical memory blocks corresponding to a memory in a computational device are allocated. An attribute is associated with at least one logical memory block, wherein the attribute indicates whether the at least one logical memory block can be swapped from the memory, and wherein physical blocks corresponding to the at least one logical memory block are contiguous.