Coordination between memory-saving mechanisms in computers that run virtual machines

A Gordon, M Ben-Yehuda - US Patent 9,390,028, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method includes running in a computer a hypervisor that allocates
physical memory pages of the computer to a Virtual Machine (VM). A guest Operating …

Virtual machine migration with swap pages

U Bacher, R Buendgen, AN Mencias - US Patent 9,183,036, 2015 - Google Patents
Migration of a virtual machine to a new host is coordinated while data that is mapped into
virtual (Swap) memory of a Source instance of the virtual machine (or guest) is properly …

Synchronization of snapshots in a distributed storage system

A Lazar, Y Feldmann - US Patent 9,912,748, 2018 - Google Patents
A method includes storing data generated in a source node by sending write requests to
multiple destination nodes. The destination nodes are requested to create snapshots of the …

Method and system for zero-copy disk IO using sector unaligned buffers

A Ananthabhotla - US Patent 9,047,018, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The present invention relates to the field of information technology,
including, more particularly, to systems and tech niques for managing input/output …

Using access-frequency hierarchy for selection of eviction destination

M Rapoport, A Gordon, A Maislos - US Patent 9,971,698, 2018 - Google Patents
A method includes, in a computing system in which one or more workloads access memory
pages in a memory, defining multiple memory-page lists, and specifying for each memory …

Virtual machine migration with swap pages

U Bacher, R Buendgen, AN Mencias - US Patent 9,183,035, 2015 - Google Patents
Migration of a virtual machine to a new host is coordinated while data that is mapped into
virtual (Swap) memory of a Source instance of the virtual machine (or guest) is properly …

Techniques for reducing read I/O latency in virtual machines

Y Baskakov, A Kapil, AT Garthwaite - US Patent 9,298,377, 2016 - Google Patents
A computer implemented method for reducing the latency of an anticipated read of disk
blocks from a swap file in a virtualized environment. First, the method identifies a sequence …

Memory swapper for virtualized environments

A Schuster, N Amit, D Tsafrir - US Patent 9,811,268, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for reducing disk read rate by managing dataset mapping of
virtual machine (VM) guest memory, compris ing: monitoring a plurality of disk read write …

Cluster-wide memory management using similarity-preserving signatures

BGC Hudzia, R Freiman - US Patent 9,747,051, 2017 - Google Patents
A method includes, in a computing system that includes one or more compute nodes that run
clients, defining memory chunks, each memory chunk including multiple memory pages …

Method and apparatus for a virtual machine

B Liu, M Lv, EY Song - US Patent 10,884,781, 2021 - Google Patents
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for a virtual
machine. The method imple mented in a virtual machine comprises: receiving I/O requests …