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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2013
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yury Baskakov, Newton, MA (US);
Alexander Thomas Garthwaite, Hamilton, MA (US);
Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Irene Zhang, Seattle, WA (US);
Seongbeom Kim, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nikhil Bhatia, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kiran Tati, Santa Clara, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Memory performance in a computer system that implements large page mapping is improved even when memory is scarce by identifying page sharing opportunities within the large pages at the granularity of small pages and breaking up the large pages so that small pages within the large page can be freed up through page sharing. In addition, the number of small page sharing opportunities within the large pages can be used to estimate the total amount of memory that could be reclaimed through page sharing.