Patent ID: 8868876

Claim:
A computer program product for managing large page memory pools of a computing environment, the computer program product comprising: a computer-readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: establishing multiple large page memory pools, each large page memory pool of the multiple large page memory pools comprising a number of large pages; dedicating each large page memory pool of the multiple large page memory pools to a processor of multiple processors of the computing environment, wherein each processor of the multiple processors can concurrently access pages from a dedicated large page memory pool; receiving a page request for one or more large pages from a specified large page memory pool of the multiple large page memory pools; evaluating the number of pages in the specified large page memory pool; and responsive to the evaluating, transferring pages between at least two large page memory pools of the multiple large page memory pools, wherein the specified large memory pool is one of the at least two large page memory pools.