Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Providing metadata in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB)
- Patent Title (中): 在翻译后备缓冲区（TLB）中提供元数据
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Application No.: US12005892Application Date: 2007-12-28
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Publication No.: US07941631B2Publication Date: 2011-05-10
- Inventor: David Champagne , Abhishek Tiwari , Wei Wu , Christopher J. Hughes , Sanjeev Kumar , Shih-Lien Lu
- Applicant: David Champagne , Abhishek Tiwari , Wei Wu , Christopher J. Hughes , Sanjeev Kumar , Shih-Lien Lu
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F12/10
- IPC: G06F12/10
Abstract:
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to store entries each having a translation portion to store a virtual address (VA)-to-physical address (PA) translation and a second portion to store bits for a memory page associated with the VA-to-PA translation, where the bits indicate attributes of information in the memory page. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090172243A1 Providing metadata in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) Public/Granted day:2009-07-02
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