Application-controlled memory management in a single address space environment

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• 作者：Alberto Bartoli ; Gianluca Dini and Lanfranco Lopriore
• 关键词：Key words ; Memory management – ; Persistent storage – ; Single address space – ; Uniform storage – ; Virtual memory
• 刊名：International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)
• 出版年：2001
• 出版时间：May 2001
• 年：2001
• 卷：3
• 期：2
• 页码：235-245
• 全文大小：223 KB
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Software Engineering
  Software Engineering, Programming and Operating Systems
  Theory of Computation
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1433-2787

文摘

With reference to a memory management system supporting the single address space abstraction and a uniform, persistent view of storage, we present a set of mechanisms that allow applications to exert explicit control over memory management activities. These mechanisms make it possible to move the contents of a virtual page to primary memory for fast processor access, or to push these contents back to secondary memory to free primary memory space. Our memory management scheme allows programs to exploit the memory reference pattern of the underlying algorithms, thereby improving utilisation of the system storage resources. This result is illustrated by using significant examples of memory management activities implemented at the application program level.