Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for an efficient TLB lookup
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Application No.: US15650365Application Date: 2017-07-14
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Publication No.: US10649912B2Publication Date: 2020-05-12
- Inventor: Michael Johannes Jaspers , Markus Kaltenbach , Girish G. Kurup , Ulrich Mayer
- 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: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F12/10 ; G06F12/1045 ; G06F12/1027

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method of operating a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) arrangement for a processor supporting virtual addressing, wherein multiple translation engines are used to perform translations on request of one of a plurality of dedicated processor units. The method comprises: maintaining by a cache unit a dependency matrix for the engines to track for each processing unit if an engine is assigned to the each processing unit for a table walk. The cache unit may block a processing unit from allocating an engine to a translation request when the engine is already assigned to the processing unit in the dependency matrix.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190018795A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN EFFICIENT TLB LOOKUP Public/Granted day:2019-01-17
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