Computer system with virtual memory and paging mechanism

Details Computer system with virtual memory and paging mechanism Computer system with virtual memory and paging mechanism

2005-11-29

2005-11-29

Thai, Tuan V. (Department: 2186)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Address formation

Address mapping

C711S209000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06970991

ABSTRACT:
A computer system supports virtual memory and a paging mechanism. When a new process is created, this occupies one or more memory region. In one embodiment, at least a first memory region occupied by the process at a first virtual address has predefined, fixed, page characteristics (for example page size). It turns out that these are not optimum for the performance of the process. In order to address this, a routine in a shared library is invoked to copy the component from the first memory region into a second memory region. The second memory region either has different page characteristics from the first memory region (for example, a different page size), or is modifiable to have such different page characteristics. The second memory region is reallocated in virtual memory so that it replaces the first memory region at the first virtual address. The overall consequence of this is that at least one component of the process can now operate at a more suitable page characteristic (such as page size), thereby leading to improved performance.

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