Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hybrid address translation
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Application No.: US13432381Application Date: 2012-03-28
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Publication No.: US09256550B2Publication Date: 2016-02-09
- Inventor: Anthony J. Bybell , Michael K. Gschwind
- Applicant: Anthony J. Bybell , Michael K. Gschwind
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Agent William A. Kinnaman, Jr.
- Main IPC: G06F12/10
- IPC: G06F12/10 ; G06F12/02

Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention relate to hybrid address translation. An aspect of the invention includes receiving a first address, the first address referencing a location in a first address space. The computer searches a segment lookaside buffer (SLB) for a SLB entry corresponding to the first address; the SLB entry comprising a type field and an address field and determines whether a value of the type field in the SLB entry indicates a hashed page table (HPT) search or a radix tree search. Based on determining that the value of the type field indicates the HPT search, a HPT is searched to determine a second address, the second address comprising a translation of the first address into a second address space; and based on determining that the value of the type field indicates the radix tree search, a radix tree is searched to determine the second address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130262817A1 HYBRID ADDRESS TRANSLATION Public/Granted day:2013-10-03
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