PRESERVING LARGE PAGES OF MEMORY ACROSS LIVE MIGRATIONS OF WORKLOADS

A method of preserving the contiguity of large pages of a workload during migration of the workload from a source host to a destination host includes the steps of: detecting at the destination host, receipt of a small page of zeros from the source host, wherein, at the source host, the small page is...

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Hauptverfasser: VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, Rajesh, RAMANATHAN, Arunachalam, BASKAKOV, Yury, SAXENA, Anurekh, YU, Ying, STUNES, Michael Robert
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Zusammenfassung:A method of preserving the contiguity of large pages of a workload during migration of the workload from a source host to a destination host includes the steps of: detecting at the destination host, receipt of a small page of zeros from the source host, wherein, at the source host, the small page is part of one of the large pages of the workload; and upon detecting the receipt of the small page of zeros, storing, at the destination host, all zeros in a small page that is part of one of the large pages of the workload.