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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Gaurav Batra, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Sreenivas Makineedi, Round Rock, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for setting a compression ratio for utilizing a compressed memory pool (which is backed by pinned memory) by a virtual memory manager (VMM). Compression of pages of corresponding segments can be tracked as part of a VMM paging algorithm that compresses pages to store in a compressed memory pool. A segment having pages with an average compression ratio below a threshold is identified. The identified segment pages are prevented from utilizing the compressed memory pool resulting in optimizing the use of the compressed memory pool.