Providing hardware support for shared virtual memory between local and remote physical memory
US8719547B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 18, 2009 |
| Grant date | May 6, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 28, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2212/254
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a memory management unit (MMU) having entries to store virtual address to physical address translations, where each entry includes a location indicator to indicate whether a memory location for the corresponding entry is present in a local or remote memory. In this way, a common virtual memory space can be shared between the two memories, which may be separated by one or more non-coherent links. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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