The virtual machine abstraction provides a wide variety of benefits which have undeniably
enabled cloud computing. Virtual machines, however, are a double-edged sword as …

To mitigate the data movement bottleneck on large multicore systems, the near-data
computing paradigm (NDC) offloads computation to where the data resides on-chip. The …

In virtualization systems, guest memory overcommitment helps to improve the utilization of
the host memory resource. However, the widely adopted I/O passthrough technique makes …

(57) ABSTRACT A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of
memory is being used by a guest control program to back an address translation structure …

(57) ABSTRACT A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of
memory is being used by a guest control program to back an address translation structure …

Virtual machine purging of structures associated with address translation is delayed. A host
logical processor executing on a physical processor issues a local purge request to purge …

(57) ABSTRACT A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of
memory is being used by a guest control program to back an address translation structure …

Selective purging of entries of structures associated with address translation. A request to
purge entries of a structure associated with address translation is obtained. Based on …

(57) ABSTRACT A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of
memory is backing an address translation structure of a control program being managed by …

A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of memory is
backing an address translation structure of a control program being managed by a virtual …