Advanced micro devices, inc. (20250110893). CACHE VIRTUALIZATION
CACHE VIRTUALIZATION
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Inventor(s)
John Szeto of Santa Clara CA US
Kostantinos Danny Christidis of Toronto CA
Wade K. Smith of Sunnyvale CA US
CACHE VIRTUALIZATION
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250110893 titled 'CACHE VIRTUALIZATION
Original Abstract Submitted
an apparatus and method for efficiently performing address translation requests. an integrated circuit includes a system memory that stores address mappings, and the circuitry of one or more clients processes one or more applications and generate address translation requests. a translation lookaside buffer (tlb) stores, in multiple entries, address mappings retrieved from the system memory. circuitry of a client processes one or more applications and generates address translation requests. the entries of the tlb stores address mappings corresponding to different address mapping types and different virtual functions to avoid searches of multiple other lower-level tlbs that are significantly larger and have larger access. in addition, the tlb is implemented with a relatively small number of entries and uses fully associative data storage arrangement to further reduce access latencies.