Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Operation of a multi-slice processor implementing a unified page walk cache
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Application No.: US15135685Application Date: 2016-04-22
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Publication No.: US10534715B2Publication Date: 2020-01-14
- Inventor: Dwain A. Hicks , Jonathan H. Raymond , George W. Rohrbaugh, III , Shih-Hsiung S. Tung
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Nathan M. Rau
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/0875 ; G06F12/1045 ; G06F12/0871

Abstract:
Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes a plurality of execution slices, a plurality of load/store slices, and one or more page walk caches, where operation includes: receiving, at a load/store slice, an instruction to be issued; determining, at the load/store slice, a process type indicating a source of the instruction to be a host process or a guest process; and determining, in accordance with an allocation policy and in dependence upon the process type, an allocation of an entry of the page walk cache, wherein the page walk cache comprises one or more entries for both host processes and guest processes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170308474A1 OPERATION OF A MULTI-SLICE PROCESSOR IMPLEMENTING A UNIFIED PAGE WALK CACHE Public/Granted day:2017-10-26
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