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Techniques for improving dirty page logging

US7962703B1 · kind B1 · utility

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19Claims

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Assignee

Symantec Corporation · US

Inventors

Dharmesh Shah · San Jose, US
Anurag Agarwal · Jersey City, US
Ankur Arora · New Delhi, IN
Nitin Madan · Cupertino, US
Sureshbabu Basavayya · Pune, IN
Ashish Puri · Erie, US
Srikanth Mahabalarao · Bengaluru, IN
Gurbir Singh Dhaliwal · Jamkhed, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 8, 2007
Grant date	Jun 14, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 15, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2201/885
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for improving dirty page logging are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for memory logging comprising the steps of determining for one or more pages of memory if the pages of memory are likely to be modified in a subsequent epoch, performing a first operation on the pages of memory that are likely to be modified in a subsequent epoch, and performing a second operation on the pages of memory that are not likely to be modified in a subsequent epoch, wherein the first operation and the second operation are dissimilar.

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