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Title: Apparatus and method for neighborhood-aware virtual to physical address translations

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1651022
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An apparatus and method performs neighborhood-aware virtual to physical address translations. A coalescing opportunity for a first virtual address is determined, based on completing a memory access corresponding to a page walk for a second virtual address. Metadata corresponding to the first virtual address is provided to a page table walk buffer based on the coalescing opportunity and a page walk for the first virtual address is performed based on the metadata corresponding to the first virtual address.

Research Organization:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-07NA27344
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
Patent Number(s):
10,684,957
Application Number:
16/110,062
OSTI ID:
1651022
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 08/23/2018
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (6)

Identification and consolidation of page table entries patent July 2015
On-the fly TLB coalescing patent August 2013
Techniques for servicing fetch requests utilizing coalesing page table entries patent December 2013
Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Dynamically Minimizing Translation Lookaside Buffer Entries across Contiguous Memory patent-application October 2004
Technique for Determining Address Translation Data to be Stored within an Address Translation Cache patent-application June 2019
Apparatus and method for maintaining address translation data within an address translation cache patent January 2019

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