216 results about "Manual memory management" patented technology

The present invention provides a flash memory management system and method with increased performance. The flash memory management system provides the ability to efficiently manage and allocate flash memory use in a way that improves reliability and longevity, while maintaining good performance levels. The flash memory management system includes a free block mechanism, a disk maintenance mechanism, and a bad block detection mechanism. The free block mechanism provides efficient sorting of free blocks to facilitate selecting low use blocks for writing. The disk maintenance mechanism provides for the ability to efficiently clean flash memory blocks during processor idle times. The bad block detection mechanism provides the ability to better detect when a block of flash memory is likely to go bad. The flash status mechanism stores information in fast access memory that describes the content and status of the data in the flash disk. The new bank detection mechanism provides the ability to automatically detect when new banks of flash memory are added to the system. Together, these mechanisms provide a flash memory management system that can improve the operational efficiency of systems that utilize flash memory.

An integrated memory management device according to an example of the invention comprises an acquiring unit acquiring a read destination logical address from a processor, an address conversion unit converting the read destination logical address into a read destination physical address of a non-volatile main memory, an access unit reading, from the non-volatile main memory, data that corresponds to the read destination physical address and has a size that is equal to a block size or an integer multiple of the page size of the non-volatile main memory, and transmission unit transferring the read data to a cache memory of the processor having a cache size that depends on the block size or the integer multiple of the page size of the non-volatile main memory.

A memory management system for a thinly provisioned memory volume in which a relatively larger virtual address range of virtual address blocks is mapped to a relatively smaller physical memory comprising physical memory blocks via a mapping table containing entries only for addresses of the physical memory blocks containing data. The memory management system comprises a snapshot provision unit to take a given snapshot of the memory volume at a given time, the snapshot comprising a mapping table and memory values of the volume, the mapping table and memory values comprising entries only for addresses of the physical memory containing data. The snapshot is managed on the same thin provisioning basis as the volume itself, and the system is particularly suitable for RAM type memory disks.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an efficient manner to systematically remove data from a memory that has been transferred or copied to disk storage, thereby facilitating faster querying of data residing in the memory. In particular, memory containing data received from data sources is partitioned into a fixed quantity of buckets each associated with a respective time interval. The buckets represent contiguous intervals of time, where each interval is preferably of the same duration. When data arrives, the data is associated with a timestamp and placed in the appropriate bucket associated with a time interval corresponding to that timestamp. If a timestamp falls outside the range of time intervals associated with the buckets, the data corresponding to that timestamp is placed in an additional bucket. Data within the oldest bucket in memory is periodically removed to provide storage capacity for new incoming information.

The present invention is a method and system of automatic memory management (garbage collection). An application automatically marks up objects referenced from the “extended root set”. At garbage collection, the system starts traversal from the marked-up objects. It can conduct accurate garbage collection in a non-GC language, such as C++. It provides a deterministic reclamation feature. An object and its resources are released immediately when the last reference is dropped. Application codes automatically become entirely GC-safe and interruptible. A concurrent collector can be pause-less and with predictable worst-case latency of micro-second level. Memory usage is efficient and the cost of reference counting is significantly reduced.

A memory management unit (MMU) is disclosed for managing a memory storing data arranged within a multiple memory pages. The memory management unit includes a security check receiving a physical address within a selected memory page, and security attributes of the selected memory page. The security check unit uses the physical address to access one or more security attribute data structures located in the memory to obtain an additional security attribute of the selected memory page. The security check unit generates a fault signal dependent upon the security attributes of selected memory page and the additional security attribute of the selected memory page. The security attributes of the selected memory page may include a user/supervisor (U/S) bit and a read/write (R/W) bit as defined by the ×86 processor architecture. The one or more security attribute data structures may include a security attribute table directory and one or more security attribute tables. The security attribute table directory may include multiple entries, and each entry of the security attribute table directory may include a present bit and a security attribute table base address field. A central processing unit (CPU) is described including the memory management unit (MMU), and a computer system is disclosed including the CPU. A method is described for providing access security for a memory used to store data arranged within multiple memory pages.

A method is disclosed for recovering image memory capacity, in relation to an image which has been encoded using a linear transform according to a layer progressive mode into L layers, L being an integer value greater than unity, the L layers being stored in an image memory having a limited capacity. The method comprises defining a Quality Reduction Factor (700), being a positive integer value, identifying at least one of the L layers corresponding to the Quality Reduction Factor, and discarding (702) said at least one of the L layers in progressive order in accordance with the Quality Reduction Factor, thereby recovering said memory capacity.

A window surface associated with a first application is automatically detected as an exclusive window surface for a display. In response, the system automatically transitions to a full-screen mode in which a graphics processor flushes content to the display. The full-screen mode includes flipping between a front surface buffer and a back surface buffer associated with the first application. It is subsequently detected that the window surface associated with the first application is not an exclusive window surface for the display. In response, the system automatically transitions to a windowed mode in which the graphics processor flushes content to the display. In windowed mode, the system frame buffer is flushed to the display. The transition to windowed mode includes a minimum number of buffer content copy operations between the front surface buffer, the back surface buffer and the system frame buffer.

A memory management unit (MMU) is disclosed for managing a memory storing data arranged within a plurality of memory pages. The MMU includes a security check unit (SCU) receiving a physical address generated during execution of a current instruction. The physical address resides within a selected memory page. The SCU uses the physical address to access one or more security attribute data structures located in the memory to obtain a security attribute of the selected memory page, compares a numerical value conveyed by a security attribute of the current instruction to a numerical value conveyed by the security attribute of the selected memory page, and produces an output signal dependent upon a result of the comparison. The MMU accesses the selected memory page dependent upon the output signal. The security attribute of the selected memory page may include a security context identification (SCID) value indicating a security context level of the selected memory page. The security attribute of the current instruction may include an SCID value indicating a security context level of a memory page containing the current instruction. A central processing unit (CPU) is described including an execution unit and the MMU. A computer system is described including the memory, the CPU, and the MMU. A method is described for providing access security for a memory used to store data arranged within a plurality of memory pages. The method may be embodied within the MMU.

A method for managing memory, comprising: maintaining a strong reference count for a first object; establishing a first reference from the first object to a second object; establishing a second reference from the second object to the first object, wherein the second reference is a weak reference that does not increase the strong reference count of the first object; detecting that the strong reference count of the first object has reached zero; in response to detecting that the strong reference count has reached zero, invoking a corresponding action.

The invention discloses a personnel information comprehensive management system. The system comprises a personnel management module, an attendance management module, a salary and bonus distribution management module and a personnel comprehensive achievement management module. A management system is a basis of an enterprise, and execution power is guarantee for development of the enterprise. The enterprise is not in lack of the system but in lack of the execution of the system; the system is quantized by using an informationalized technical means and the execution is measured by using tracing supervision, the measuring result is related to personal interest; the system is a means for carrying out the system powerfully. Total factor management of personnel can be realized through the system; the enterprise management is both rigid and flexible and is performed well through the rigidness of computer management and the flexibility of manual management of the personnel information comprehensive management system, the national laws and regulations and the system of the enterprise are effectively implemented, the power of a manager is supervised, the personnel can work in a good management environment of the enterprise, finally healthy, harmonious and positive development of the enterprise is realized, employee benefit, the efficiency of the enterprise is increased, and the nation is stable.

A method, system and computer program product for optimizing memory usage of an application running on a virtual machine. A virtual machine memory block is pre-allocated and the average memory usage of the virtual machine is periodically computed using statistics collected from the virtual machine through an API. If the memory usage average becomes higher than a maximum threshold, then a recovery mode is entered by releasing the virtual machine memory block and forcing the running application to reduce its processing activity; optionally, a garbage collector cycle can be forced. If the computed memory usage average becomes lower than a minimum threshold value, which is lower than the maximum threshold value, then a normal mode is entered by re-allocating the virtual machine memory block and forcing the running application to resumes its normal processing activity. Optionally, when the virtual machine is idle, a deep garbage collection is forced.

A storage mamagement method of embedded database,includes that: (1) the storage strategy of data in the memory is that: if logic structure accords with physical structure, the structure is into a divided system area, a main storage database area, a user working area, a log area and a preformed area; the storage strategy of data in the external memory is that: logic structure is divided into a database table, a segment and a database block; physical structure includes a physical file and a physical block; (2) the physical file organization of database is that: a data dictionary is placed at the heading, a user table since then; (3) the memory management of data dictionaryin the external memory is that: the described information of physical file is stored in the file header, denotative definition kind and attribute definition kind adopt a three section type storage form; data dictionary adopt a page type memory management method in the memory; (4) a permanent memory data is stored using T tree and a a permanent external memory data is stored using B+ tree; data and its index are managed using a extended segment memory management method. The invention improves the utilization rate of memory space, and accelerate the speed of data to access.

Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. Embodiments described herein can provide transparent and dynamic performance acceleration, especially with big data or other memory intensive applications, by reducing or eliminating overhead typically associated with memory management, storage management, networking, and data directories. Rather, embodiments manage memory objects at the memory level which can significantly shorten the pathways between storage and memory and between memory and processing, thereby eliminating the associated overhead between each.

Mechanisms to implement memory management to enable protocol-aware asynchronous, zero-copy transmits. A transport protocol engine exposes interfaces via which memory buffers from a memory pool in operating system (OS) kernel space may be allocated to applications running in an OS user layer. The memory buffers may be used to store data that is to be transferred to a network destination using a zero-copy transmit mechanism, wherein the data is directly transmitted from the memory buffers to the network via a network interface controller. The transport protocol engine also exposes a buffer reuse API to the user layer to enable applications to obtain buffer availability information maintained by the protocol engine. In view of the buffer availability information, the application may adjust its data transfer rate.

A computing system and methods for memory management are presented. A memory or an I/O controller receives a write request where the data two be written is associated with an address. Hint information may be associated with the address and may relate to memory characteristics such as an historical, O/S direction, data priority, job priority, job importance, job category, memory type, I/O sender ID, latency, power, write cost, or read cost components. The memory controller may interrogate the hint information to determine where (e.g., what memory type or class) to store the associated data. Data is therefore efficiently stored within the system. The hint information may also be used to track post-write information and may be interrogated to determine if a data migration should occur and to which new memory type or class the data should be moved.

A memory management and protection system that incorporates device security features that support a distributed, shared memory system. The concept of secure regions of memory and secure code execution is supported, and a mechanism is provided to extend a chain of trust from a known, fixed secure boot ROM to the actual secure code execution. Furthermore, the system keeps a secure address threshold that is only programmable by a secure supervisor, and will only allow secure access requests that are above this threshold.