Collapsed address translation with multiple page sizes
US10042778B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 31, 2017 |
| Grant date | Aug 7, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 31, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2212/651
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
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 provides an additional cache storing collapsed translations derived from the MTLB.
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