Michael Stanley Yoder

US Patent:

8001353, Aug 16, 2011

Filed:

Jun 10, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/150664

Inventors:

Clifford J. Mather - Fort Collins CO, US
Jyh Chan Wu - Fort Collins CO, US
Michael E. Yoder - Fort Collins CO, US
Murthy V. Mamidi - Fort Collins CO, US

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

International Classification:

G06F 13/00

US Classification:

711170, 711154, 711159, 360 48

Abstract:

An exemplary embodiment of the invention includes methods of configuring a memory block including: providing a memory block, the memory block having a set of addressable memory locations; configuring the memory block to include a plurality of pages corresponding to the set of addressable memory locations, the plurality of pages each having a page size; and allocating at least one of the plurality of pages for storing at least one per-page data structure, the at least one per-page data structure co-located with the memory block. In some embodiments, methods further include: defining the set of addressable memory locations; and computing a number of pages needed to store the at least one per-page data structure. Advantages of the invention include flexible memory allocation. The invention supports a dynamic update of the memory per-page data structures so that the operating system can take full advantage of the available memory.