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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2012
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Ananthakrishna Ramesh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel E. Crosby, Cupertino, CA (US);
James Michael Magee, Orlando, FL (US);
Lionel D. Desai, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew G. Watson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Neil G. Crane, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer program products for target memory pressure event notifications are disclosed. Processes running on a device can register to receive memory pressure event notifications from a memory management system, which are sent while memory pages are being reclaimed. Active processes running on a device processor can be assigned a priority that ranges from low to high. Responsive to a memory pressure event occurring on the device, the memory management system determines whether less than a threshold number of high priority processes are active on the device. If so, the memory management system sends a memory pressure event notification to the registered process with the lowest priority among the active processes.