发明申请
US20080215848A1 Method and System For Caching Address Translations From Multiple Address Spaces In Virtual Machines
有权
用于从虚拟机中的多个地址空间缓存地址转换的方法和系统
- 专利标题: Method and System For Caching Address Translations From Multiple Address Spaces In Virtual Machines
- 专利标题(中): 用于从虚拟机中的多个地址空间缓存地址转换的方法和系统
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申请号: US12098766申请日: 2008-04-07
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公开(公告)号: US20080215848A1公开(公告)日: 2008-09-04
- 发明人: John Te-Jui Sheu , David S. Bailey , Eric P. Traut , Rene Antonio Vega
- 申请人: John Te-Jui Sheu , David S. Bailey , Eric P. Traut , Rene Antonio Vega
- 主分类号: G06F12/10
- IPC分类号: G06F12/10
摘要:
A method of virtualizing memory through shadow page tables that cache translations from multiple guest address spaces in a virtual machine includes a software version of a hardware tagged translation look-aside buffer. Edits to guest page tables are detected by intercepting the creation of guest-writable mappings to guest page tables with translations cached in shadow page tables. The affected cached translations are marked as stale and purged upon an address space switch or an indiscriminate flush of translations by the guest. Thereby, non-stale translations remain cached but stale translations are discarded. The method includes tracking the guest-writable mappings to guest page tables, deferring discovery of such mappings to a guest page table for the first time until a purge of all cached translations when the number of untracked guest page tables exceeds a threshold, and sharing shadow page tables between shadow address spaces and between virtual processors.