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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2014
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dableena Das, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Kai Cheng, Portland, OR (US);
Jonathan C. Jasper, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is described for achieving high memory reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes detecting a permanent failure of a first memory device of a plurality of memory devices of a first channel of a memory system at a computing system, and eliminating the first failure by merging a first error-correction code (ECC) locator device of the first channel with a second ECC locator device of a second channel, wherein merging is performed at the second channel.