Patent classifications
G06F2212/655
Technologies for providing edge deduplication
Technologies for providing deduplication of data in an edge network includes a compute device having circuitry to obtain a request to write a data set. The circuitry is also to apply, to the data set, an approximation function to produce an approximated data set. Additionally, the circuitry is to determine whether the approximated data set is already present in a shared memory and write, to a translation table and in response to a determination that the approximated data set is already present in the shared memory, an association between a local memory address and a location, in the shared memory, where the approximated data set is already present. Additionally, the circuitry is to increase a reference count associated with the location in the shared memory.
Fine-grained access memory controller
Systems and methods are provided to perform fine-grained memory accesses using a memory controller. The memory controller can access elements stored in memory across multiple dimensions of a matrix. The memory controller can perform accesses to non-contiguous memory locations by skipping zero or more elements across any dimension of the matrix.
Virtual cache synonym detection using alias tags
A system and method of handling data access demands in a processor virtual cache that includes: determining if a virtual cache data access demand missed because of a difference in the context tag of the data access demand and a corresponding entry in the virtual cache with the same virtual address as the data access demand; in response to the virtual cache missing, determining whether the alias tag valid bit is set in the corresponding entry of the virtual cache; in response to the alias tag valid bit not being set, determining whether the virtual cache data access demand is a synonym of the corresponding entry in the virtual cache; and in response to the virtual access demand being a synonym of the corresponding entry in the virtual cache with the same virtual address but a different context tag, updating information in a tagged entry in an alias table.
Reservation architecture for overcommitted memory
Various systems and methods for computer memory overcommitment management are described herein. A system for computer memory management includes a memory device to store data and a mapping table; and a memory overcommitment circuitry to: receive a signal to move data in a first block from a memory reduction area in the memory device to a non-memory reduction area in the memory device, the memory reduction area to store data using a memory reduction technique, and the non-memory reduction area to store data without any memory reduction techniques; allocate a second block in the non-memory reduction area; copy the data in the first block to the second block; and update the mapping table to revise a pointer to point to the second block, the mapping table used to store pointers to memory device in the memory reduction area and the non-memory reduction area.
Speculative addressing using a virtual address-to-physical address page crossing buffer
A method includes receiving an instruction to be executed by a processor. The method further includes performing a lookup in a page crossing buffer that includes one or more entries to determine if the instruction has an entry in the page crossing buffer. Each of the entries includes a physical address. The method further includes, when the page crossing buffer has the entry in the page crossing buffer, retrieving a particular physical address from the entry in the page crossing buffer.
POWER OPTIMIZED PREFETCHING IN SET-ASSOCIATIVE TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFER STRUCTURE
A computer system includes a processor and a prefetch engine. The processor is configured to generate a demand access stream. The prefetch engine is configured to initiate a first prefetch request based on the demand access stream and perform a first prefetch that includes performing a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) lookup on a TLB structure in response to the first prefetch request. The processor determines a TLB entry in response to performing the TLB lookup and performs at least one second prefetch based on the TLB entry without performing a subsequent TLB lookup on the TLB structure.
DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY DROPPING SOFTWARE PREFETCH INSTRUCTIONS
Techniques and mechanisms for providing information to determine whether a software prefetch instruction is to be executed. In an embodiment, one or more entries of a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) each include a respective value which indicates whether, according to one or more criteria, corresponding data has been sufficiently utilized. Insufficiently utilized data is indicated in a TLB entry with an identifier of an executed instruction to prefetch the corresponding data. An eviction of the TLB entry results in the creation of an entry in a registry of prefetch instructions. The entry in the registry includes the identifier of the executed prefetch instruction, and a value indicating a number of times that one or more future prefetch instructions are to be dropped. In another embodiment, execution of a subsequent prefetch instruction—which also corresponds to the identifier—is prevented based on the registry entry.
VIRTUAL CACHE SYNONYM DETECTION USING ALIAS TAGS
A system and method of handling data access demands in a processor virtual cache that includes: determining if a virtual cache data access demand missed because of a difference in the context tag of the data access demand and a corresponding entry in the virtual cache with the same virtual address as the data access demand; in response to the virtual cache missing, determining whether the alias tag valid bit is set in the corresponding entry of the virtual cache; in response to the alias tag valid bit not being set, determining whether the virtual cache data access demand is a synonym of the corresponding entry in the virtual cache; and in response to the virtual access demand being a synonym of the corresponding entry in the virtual cache with the same virtual address but a different context tag, updating information in a tagged entry in an alias table.
Process isolation for out of process page fault handling
A system and method relates to detecting a hardware event, determining a first virtual memory address associated with the hardware event, wherein the first virtual memory address is associated with a first processing thread, identifying, using the first virtual memory address, an entry of a logical address table, the entry comprising a file descriptor and a file offset associated with a file, identifying a memory address table associated with the file descriptor, translating, using the memory address table, the file offset into a second virtual memory address associated with a second processing thread, and transmitting, to the second processing thread, a notification comprising the second virtual memory address.
Enhanced memory management for virtual machines
Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for memory management of virtual machines in a computer system. A method of the disclosure includes: releasing a memory page of a guest memory of a virtual machine; sending, by the virtual machine, a first notification to a hypervisor, the first notification comprising an indication that a memory page associated with the virtual machine is to be rendered inaccessible; and receiving, by the virtual machine, a second notification indicative of detection of an attempt to access the memory page.