Patent ID: 9542100
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for managing memory pages, the method comprising: in response to determining that a server is experiencing memory pressure, identifying, by one or more processors, a first memory page in a listing of memory pages in the server; determining, by one or more processors, whether the first memory page corresponds to a logical partition (LPAR) of the server that is scheduled to undergo an operation to migrate data stored on memory pages of the LPAR to another server; responsive to determining that the first memory page does correspond to a LPAR of the server that is scheduled to undergo an operation to migrate data stored on memory pages of the LPAR to another server, determining, by one or more processors, whether to evict the first memory page based on a memory page state associated with the first memory page; and responsive to determining to evict the first memory page, evicting, by one or more processors, data stored in the first memory page to a paging space.