Patent ID: 11907589
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 2:
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
via the virtualization layer:
identifying free portions of an address space on the client and on the hardware computing system;
communicating an address space mapping from the hardware computing system to the client;
scanning a process map for the client and the hardware computing system to find a free memory region available for allocation and reserving said free memory region for unified memory use; and
communicating said free memory region to the hardware computing system and reserving the free memory region for unified memory use;

integrating a memory allocator on the client and, via the memory allocator, defining a unified memory arena using the free memory region; and
via the virtualization layer, allocating and freeing buffers from the unified memory arena, and registering/deregistering said allocations with the hardware computing system.