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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2012
Adekunle Bello, Austin, TX (US);
Douglas Griffith, Georgetown, TX (US);
Angela Astrid Jaehde, Austin, TX (US);
Srinivasa Muppala Rao, Austin, TX (US);
Adekunle Bello, Austin, TX (US);
Douglas Griffith, Georgetown, TX (US);
Angela Astrid Jaehde, Austin, TX (US);
Srinivasa Muppala Rao, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product for improving memory utilization of sparse pages are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A set of virtual pages is identified. Each virtual page in the set of virtual pages is a sparse virtual page. The set of virtual pages includes a first sparse virtual page and a second sparse virtual page. At least a portion of data of the first sparse virtual page in the set of virtual pages is stored in a first physical page. The first physical page belongs to a set of consolidation physical pages, and the first physical page also stores at least a portion of the data of the second sparse virtual page. The first and the second sparse pages are mapped to the first physical page.