BATCHED VIRTUAL MEMORY REMAPPING FOR EFFICIENT GARBAGE COLLECTION OF LARGE OBJECT AREAS

摘要

A method and system for batched remapping of virtual addresses for garbage collection in a large object area. A mapping from a table having a first set of virtual addresses and sizes of non-contiguous, page-aligned large objects in a large object area to a remapping table having a second set of virtual addresses is determined. In a single batch, a request is received that includes the second set of virtual addresses and requests a remapping of the large objects to the second set of virtual addresses. The second set of virtual memory addresses is validated. The large objects are remapped to the second set of virtual memory addresses according to the request. The remapping results in a compaction so that the large objects are contiguous in the large object area. The remapping does not require copying data in physical memory.