Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Addressing combined with specific memory configuration or... – Virtual machine memory addressing
Reexamination Certificate
2005-09-06
2005-09-06
Portka, Gary (Department: 2188)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Addressing combined with specific memory configuration or...
Virtual machine memory addressing
C711S103000, C711S162000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06941410
ABSTRACT:
A virtual heap for a process executing within a virtual machine is described. In one embodiment, the virtual persistent heap may allow the running of an application on a physical heap that is smaller than may otherwise be required. As an example, the virtual persistent heap may be an order of magnitude larger than the physical, in-memory heap. This feature is important for small consumer and appliance devices, as these devices may have a limited amount of memory. In one embodiment, the virtual heap may be maintained on non-volatile memory storage external to the device running the virtual machine, and portions of the heap for the current execution state of the process may be cached in and out of a “physical” heap resident in local memory on the device. For example, the device may connect to a server on the Internet, and the server may provide non-volatile storage space for the virtual heap. In another embodiment, the external storage for the virtual persistent heap may reside on a non-volatile storage attached to the device, for example, a Flash card or hard disk drive. In one embodiment of the virtual heap, the entire heap for a process may be made persistent. The virtual persistent heap may enable the checkpointing of the state of the computation of a virtual machine, including processes executing within the virtual machine, to a persistent storage such as a disk or flash device for future resumption of the computation from the checkpoint. The Virtual Persistent Heap also may enable the migration of the virtual machine computation states, and thus the migration of executing processes, from one machine to another. The saved state of the virtual machine heap may also provide the ability to restart the virtual machine after a system crash or shutdown to the last saved persistent state, and to restart a process that was running within the virtual machine prior to the system crash or shutdown to a checkpointed state of the process stored in the virtual persistent heap. This persistent feature is important for small consumer and appliance devices, as these appliances may be shutdown and restarted often.
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Duigou Michael J.
Saulpaugh Thomas E.
Slaughter Gregory L.
Traversat Bernard A.
Ho Thang
Kowert Robert C.
Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel P.C.
Portka Gary
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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