Microsoft technology licensing, llc (20250103339). DIRECT SWAP CACHING WITH ZERO LINE OPTIMIZATIONS
DIRECT SWAP CACHING WITH ZERO LINE OPTIMIZATIONS
Organization Name
microsoft technology licensing, llc
Inventor(s)
Ishwar Agarwal of Redmond WA US
George Chrysos of Portland OR US
Oscar Rosell Martinez of Barcelona ES
DIRECT SWAP CACHING WITH ZERO LINE OPTIMIZATIONS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250103339 titled 'DIRECT SWAP CACHING WITH ZERO LINE OPTIMIZATIONS
Original Abstract Submitted
systems and methods related to direct swap caching with zero line optimizations are described. a method for managing a system having a near memory and a far memory comprises receiving a request from a requestor to read a block of data that is either stored in the near memory or the far memory. the method includes analyzing a metadata portion associated with the block of data, the metadata portion comprising: both (1) information concerning whether the near memory contains the block of data or whether the far memory contains the block of data and (2) information concerning whether a data portion associated with the block of data is all zeros. the method further includes instead of retrieving the data portion from the far memory, synthesizing the data portion corresponding to the block of data to generate a synthesized data portion and transmitting the synthesized data portion to the requestor.