Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Selective purging of PCI I/O address translation buffer
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Application No.: US14220365Application Date: 2014-03-20
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Publication No.: US09886391B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: David F. Craddock , Thomas A. Gregg , Dan F. Greiner , Damian L. Osisek
- 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
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/10
- IPC: G06F12/10 ; G06F12/1045 ; G06F12/1027 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F13/42

Abstract:
Embodiments relate to enhancing a refresh PCI translation (RPCIT) instruction to refresh a translation lookaside buffer (TLB). A computer processor determines a request to purge a translation for a single frame of the TLB in response to executing an enhanced RPCIT instruction. The enhanced RPCIT instruction is configured to selectively perform one of a single-frame TLB refresh operation or a range-bounded TLB refresh operation. The computer processor determines an absolute storage frame based on a translation of a PCI virtual address in response to the request to purge a translation for a single frame of the TLB. The computer processer further performs the single-frame TLB refresh operation to purge the translation for the single frame.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150269088A1 SELECTIVE PURGING OF PCI I/O ADDRESS TRANSLATION BUFFER Public/Granted day:2015-09-24
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