Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Resetting persistent balloon memory for fragmentation reduction
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Application No.: US15829020Application Date: 2017-12-01
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Publication No.: US10664300B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: David Hildenbrand , Michael Tsirkin
- Applicant: Red Hat, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NC Raleigh
- Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Raleigh
- Agency: K&L Gates LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F12/02

Abstract:
A balloon memory fragmentation reduction system includes a memory, at least one processor in communication with the memory, a guest operating system (OS) including a device driver, and a hypervisor executing on the at least one processor. The hypervisor is configured to record an amount of memory allocated by the device driver of the guest OS, locate a contiguous region of guest memory addresses according to the amount of memory allocated by the device driver, reserve the contiguous region of guest memory addresses, and notify the guest OS that the contiguous region of guest memory addresses is reserved.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190171473A1 RESETTING PERSISTENT BALLOON MEMORY FOR FRAGMENTATION REDUCTION Public/Granted day:2019-06-06
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