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Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 29, 2013
Applicant:

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Randolph S. Kolvick, Durham, NC (US);

Makoto Ono, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/12 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01);
Abstract

A memory management controller operatively coupled to a plurality of memory modules, the memory management controller including processing logic configured to: identify a plurality of memory tiers in the plurality of memory modules, each memory tier characterized by different operational characteristics; allocate a spare block of memory in each memory tier; identify a data characteristic for each of the one or more blocks of data in a plurality of memory tiers; migrate, in dependence upon the operational characteristics of each memory tier and the data characteristic for each of the one or more data blocks in the plurality of memory tiers, data in a first memory tier to the spare block of memory in a second memory tier; and migrate data in the second memory tier to the spare block of memory in the first memory tier.


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