Intel Corporation
APPLICATION AWARE MEMORY PATROL SCRUBBING TECHNIQUES

Abstract:

Methods and apparatus for application aware memory patrol scrubbing techniques. The method may be performed on a computing system including one or more memory devices and running multiple applications with associated processes. The computer system may be implemented in a multi-tenant environment, where virtual instances of physical resources provided by the system are allocated to separate tenants, such as through virtualization schemes employing virtual machines or containers. Quality of Service (QoS) scrubbing logic and novel interfaces are provided to enable memory scrubbing QoS policies to be applied at the tenant, application, and/or process level. This QoS policies may include memory ranges for which specific policies are applied, as well as bandwidth allocations for performing scrubbing operations. A pattern generator is also provided for generating scrubbing patterns based on observed or predicted memory access patterns and/or predefined patterns.