发明授权
- 专利标题: Variable page size translation lookaside buffer
- 专利标题(中): 可变页大小翻译后备缓冲区
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申请号: US168822申请日: 1993-12-15
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公开(公告)号: US5526504A公开(公告)日: 1996-06-11
- 发明人: Peter Y. Hsu , Joseph T. Scanlon , Steve J. Ciavaglia
- 申请人: Peter Y. Hsu , Joseph T. Scanlon , Steve J. Ciavaglia
- 申请人地址: CA Mountain View
- 专利权人: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: CA Mountain View
- 主分类号: G06F12/10
- IPC分类号: G06F12/10
摘要:
A set associative translation lookaside buffer (TLB) that supports variable sized pages without requiring the use of a separate block TLB. The TLB includes a hashing circuit that creates an index into the TLB for a virtual address using different bits from the virtual address depending on the page size of the address, and a comparator that compares virtual address identifiers or portions of virtual address identifiers stored in the TLB to the current virtual address to determine if a translation to the current virtual address is stored in the TLB.