Method and apparatus for memory management
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorVivek G. Gupta
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Abstract
In some embodiments, an electronic device includes a processor, a physical memory coupled to the processor, and a storage medium coupled to the processor. The storage medium may store instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to: survey at least a portion of the physical memory, determine an amount of free memory space and used memory space based on the survey of the physical memory, determine if a consolidation of used memory space should be performed, and, if so determined, consolidate the used memory space, and reduce the power provided to at least a portion of the physical memory following the consolidation of used memory space. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
Claims15
A power management method, comprising:
- surveying at least a portion of a physical memory of an electronic device;
- determining an amount of free memory space and used memory space based on the surveying of the physical memory;
- determining if a consolidation of used memory space should be performed;
- and if so determined
- consolidating the used memory space;
- and
- reducing the power provided to at least a portion of the physical memory following the consolidation of used memory space.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a processor;
- a physical memory coupled to the processor;
- and
- a storage medium coupled to the processor, the storage medium storing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- survey at least a portion of the physical memory;
- determine an amount of free memory space and used memory space based on rite survey of the physical memory;
- determine if a consolidation of used memory space should be performed;
- and if so determined
- consolidate the used memory space;
- and
- reduce the power provided to at least a portion of the physical memory following the consolidation of used memory space.
A machine-readable medium, having stored thereon instructions which when executed by a computing system including a physical memory cause the computing system to:
- survey at least a portion of the physical memory;
- determine an amount of free memory space and used memory space based on the survey of the physical memory;
- determine if a consolidation of used memory space should be performed;
- and if so determined
- consolidate the used memory space;
- and
- reduce the power provided to at least a portion of the physical memory following the consolidation of used memory space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.