Operating System Support for NVM+DRAM Hybrid Main Memory

Eduardo Argollo
Mehul A. Shah
Paolo Faraboschi
HotOS(2009)

Abstract

Technology trends may soon favor building main memory as a hybrid between DRAM and non-volatile memory, such as flash or PC-RAM. We describe how the operating system might manage such hybrid memories, using semantic information not available in other layers. We describe preliminary experiments suggesting that this approach is viable.

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