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Facilitating processing within computing environments supporting pageable guests

US8387049B2 · kind B2 · utility

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35Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Ingo Adlung · Altdorf, DE
Hubertus Franke · Somers, US
Lisa C. Heller · Rhinebeck, US
William A. Holder · Vestal, US
Damian L. Osisek · Vestal, US
Randall W. Philley · Kingston, US
Martin Schwidefsky · Eppelheim, DE
Gustav E. Sittmann, III · Webster Groves, US
Jong Hyuk Choi · Seoul, KR
Ray Mansell · Salt Point, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 15, 2005
Grant date	Feb 26, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 17, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2009/45583
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Processing within a computing environment that supports pageable guests is facilitated. Processing is facilitated in many ways, including, but not limited to, associating guest and host state information with guest blocks of storage; maintaining the state information in control blocks in host memory; enabling the changing of states; and using the state information in management decisions. In one particular example, the guest state includes an indication of usefulness and importance of memory contents to the guest, and the host state reflects the ease of access to memory contents. The host and guest state information is used in managing memory of the host and/or guests.

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