Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Maintenance of cache and tags in a translation lookaside buffer
- Patent Title (中): 在翻译后备缓冲区中维护缓存和标签
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Application No.: US14038225Application Date: 2013-09-26
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Publication No.: US09268694B2Publication Date: 2016-02-23
- Inventor: Wilson P. Snyder, II , Bryan W. Chin , Shubhendu S. Mukherjee , Michael Bertone , Richard E. Kessler
- Applicant: Cavium, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F13/12
- IPC: G06F13/12 ; G06F12/08 ; G06F12/10

Abstract:
A computer system that supports virtualization may maintain multiple address spaces. Each guest operating system employs guest virtual addresses (GVAs), which are translated to guest physical addresses (GPAs). A hypervisor, which manages one or more guest operating systems, translates GPAs to root physical addresses (RPAs). A merged translation lookaside buffer (MTLB) caches translations between the multiple addressing domains, enabling faster address translation and memory access. The MTLB can be logically addressable as multiple different caches, and can be reconfigured to allot different spaces to each logical cache. Further, a collapsed TLB is an additional cache storing collapsed translations derived from the MTLB. Entries in the MTLB, the collapsed TLB, and other caches can be maintained for consistency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150089147A1 Maintenance Of Cache And Tags In A Translation Lookaside Buffer Public/Granted day:2015-03-26
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