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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2011
Anil Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Carl A. Waldspurger, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xiaoxin Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anil Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Carl A. Waldspurger, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xiaoxin Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory management sub-system includes code executable by a processor fir performing selecting a plurality of contexts, and selecting a sample of the separately allocable portions of an address space for each of the contexts. For each of the selected allocable portions, a corresponding portion of the host memory to which the selected allocable portion is mapped is determined, and a count corresponding to a number of separately allocable portions of any context that are commonly mapped to the corresponding portion of the host memory. For each context, a metric is computed that is a function of the counts for that context. Host memory is allocated among the contexts at least in part based on their respective metrics.