Patent ID: 9053018
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for selecting memory pages for compression, the method comprising: analyzing a dataset stored in a memory page of an uncompressed memory; identifying, based on the analyzing, a population count associated with the dataset; determining at least one of a data type associated with the dataset and a page size associated with the memory page storing the dataset; identifying, from a plurality of compressibility information sets, a compressibility information set matching the data type and the population count associated with the memory page storing the dataset, each compressibility information set comprising historical data identifying a compressibility rate achieved for a dataset of a given data type and a given population count; comparing the compressibility rate associated with the identified compressibility information to at least one threshold; and based on the comparing, one of selecting and rejecting the memory page storing the dataset for compression.