Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Batched storage hinting with fast guest storage allocation
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Application No.: US16806361Application Date: 2020-03-02
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Publication No.: US11237879B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Henri Han van Riel , 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: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/50
- IPC: G06F9/50 ; G06F12/1045 ; G06F9/455

Abstract:
Systems and methods for batched storage hinting with fast guest storage allocation. An example method may involve: detecting, by a hypervisor, that storage has been released by a guest operating system and remains allocated to a virtual machine executing the guest operating system; accessing, by the hypervisor, one or more sets of storage blocks, wherein a set of the one or more sets comprises an identifier associated with the storage and is associated with the virtual machine; receiving, by a processing device executing the hypervisor, a request to allocate a storage block to the virtual machine; identifying, by the hypervisor, at least one storage block of the one or more sets that is associated with the virtual machine; and allocating the at least one storage block to the virtual machine.
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