System and method to coherently and dynamically remap an at-risk

Details System and method to coherently and dynamically remap an at-risk System and method to coherently and dynamically remap an at-risk

1995-08-10

1999-02-02

Beausoliel, Jr., Robert W.

G06F 1216

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058676422

ABSTRACT:
In a computer system comprising a CPU, main memory, and a memory controller, a system and method to dynamically remap memory while maintaining memory coherency. The main memory is divided into memory areas, one of which is a reserve memory area. Memory accesses are checked for errors and the errors are logged, as is the memory area in which the error occurred. The error log for each memory area is compared to an acceptable error frequency level. If a particular memory area exceeds the acceptable error frequency level, the memory area will be dynamically remapped to the reserve memory area while memory coherency is maintained. The dynamic remapping is performed by copying the memory from the memory area which exceeded the acceptable error frequency level, to the reserve memory are. During the copying, all writes to the memory area which exceeded the acceptable error frequency level are concurrently performed to both the memory area which exceeded the acceptable error frequency level and to the reserve memory area, thus preserving memory coherency. Also, the copying is performed in small blocks to avoid system timing problems.

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