Patent ID: 11922016
Assignee: ZEROPOINT TECHNOLOGIES AB
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 26:
27. The compressed memory management arrangement as defined in claim 2, further configured to obtain a free region for a page requested by a page-out request by:
checking the layout of the compressed memory space maintained by the auxiliary memory to find a free region big enough for the requested page;
if a big enough free region is found:
accommodate the requested page in the free region found; and

if a big enough free region is not found:
select a victim page in said auxiliary memory;
split the victim page into a plurality of sub-pages as long as there are free regions big enough to accommodate them all, and otherwise evict said victim page by writing it to said secondary memory to obtain the free region from space freed by the eviction of the victim page.