Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Memory deduplication based on guest page hints
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Application No.: US16383899Application Date: 2019-04-15
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Publication No.: US11429416B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Michael Tsirkin , Uri Lublin
- Applicant: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: IL Ra'anana
- Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: IL Ra'anana
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F11/14 ; H03M7/30

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and computer program products are included for de-duplicating one or more memory pages. A method includes receiving, by a hypervisor, a list of read-only memory page hints from a guest running on a virtual machine. The list of read-only memory page hints specifies a first memory page marked as writeable. The method also includes determining whether the first memory page matches a second memory page. In response to a determination that the first memory page matches the second memory page, the hypervisor may deduplicate the first and second memory pages.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190243677A1 MEMORY DEDUPLICATION BASED ON GUEST PAGE HINTS Public/Granted day:2019-08-08
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