18977585. MEMORY TIERING TECHNIQUES IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
MEMORY TIERING TECHNIQUES IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Organization Name
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor(s)
Ishwar Agarwal of Redmond WA US
George Zacharias Chrysos of Portland WA US
Oscar Rosell Martinez of Barcelona ES
MEMORY TIERING TECHNIQUES IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18977585 titled 'MEMORY TIERING TECHNIQUES IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Original Abstract Submitted
Techniques of memory tiering in computing devices are disclosed herein. One example technique includes retrieving, from a first tier in a first memory, data from a data portion and metadata from a metadata portion of the first tier upon receiving a request to read data corresponding to a system memory section. The method can then include analyzing the data location information to determine whether the first tier currently contains data corresponding to the system memory section in the received request. In response to determining that the first tier currently contains data corresponding to the system memory section in the received request, transmitting the retrieved data from the data portion of the first memory to the processor in response to the received request. Otherwise, the method can include identifying a memory location in the first or far memory that contains data corresponding to the system memory section and retrieving the data from the identified memory location.