摘要:
A system, method and computer program product for providing quiesce filtering for shared memory. The method includes receiving a shared-memory quiesce request at a processor. The request includes a donor zone. The processor includes translation look aside buffer one (TLB1). It is determined that the shared-memory request can be filtered by the processor if there not any shared memory entries in the TLB1 and the donor zone is not equal to a current zone of the processor and the processor is not running in host mode. The shared-memory quiesce request is filtered in response to the determining.
摘要:
A system, method and computer program product for providing multiple quiesce state machines. The system includes a first controller including logic for processing a first quiesce request. The system also includes a second controller including logic for processing a second quiesce request. All or a portion of the processing of the second quiesce request overlaps in time with the processing of the first quiesce request. Thus, multiple quiesce requests may be active in the system at the same time.
摘要:
Processing restrictions of a computing environment are filtered and blocked, in certain circumstances, such that processing continues despite the restrictions. One restriction includes an indication that address translation is prohibited, in response to a buffer miss. When a processing unit of the computing environment is met with this restriction, it performs a comparison of page indices, which indicates whether the address translation can continue. If address translation can continue, the restriction is ignored. The processing unit includes a processor or a pageable entity, as examples.
摘要:
A system, method and computer program product for providing quiesce filtering for shared memory. The method includes receiving a shared-memory quiesce request at a processor. The request includes a donor zone. The processor includes translation look aside buffer one (TLB1). It is determined that the shared-memory request can be filtered by the processor if there not any shared memory entries in the TLB1 and the donor zone is not equal to a current zone of the processor and the processor is not running in host mode. The shared-memory quiesce request is filtered in response to the determining.
摘要:
A technique is provided for monitoring a value without repeated storage access. A processing circuit processes an instruction of a program that specifies a memory address of a memory location to be monitored. The processing circuit configures a monitor station for monitoring the memory location. The memory location includes a state descriptor for the program. The processing circuit receives a cross-invalidate request from a memory controller. The cross-invalidate request indicates to the monitor station that content of the memory location has been changed by another processing circuit.
摘要:
A system, method and computer program product for providing multiple quiesce state machines. The system includes a first controller including logic for processing a first quiesce request. The system also includes a second controller including logic for processing a second quiesce request. All or a portion of the processing of the second quiesce request overlaps in time with the processing of the first quiesce request. Thus, multiple quiesce requests may be active in the system at the same time.
摘要:
Buffered indexing for a computer's array such as a cache is used to synchronize parent entries with children and allow background invalidation (that is, suspending the invalidation should a new request of the array come in, resuming the invalidation after the request is satisfied) of the child entries. A method for synchronization uses linking of (multiple) entries in lower-level tables to single entries in a higher-level table with a buffered index value. This index value increments each time the higher-level entry is replaced or invalidated (and thus disassociated with its corresponding lower-level entries). Multiple sets of index values are maintained, so that when one set is exhausted, processing can continue with one of the other sets. All corresponding lower-level entries with index values from the old (dirty) set can then be scrubbed (invalidated) while new entries are built from the new (clean) set. Scrubbing can take place in the background, and can be suspended and resumed at any time so as to not impact request service times of the tables.
摘要:
The present invention generally relates to shared-memory multiprocessor systems, such as IBM ESA/390 or RS/6000 systems, and deals more particularly with a method and system for sharing a second-level translation lookaside buffer (TLB 2) between several CPUs (30a, . . . 30d) for improving the performance and reducing the chip area required to buffer the results of virtual-to-absolute address translations. The inventive TLB2 organization comprises several small arrays (32a, . . . 32d) dedicated to particular CPUs, providing an interface to a major array (21), which is shared between the CPUs. The dedicated arrays 32a, . . . 32d) are required to fulfill the architected constraints and link several CPUs to the commonly used shared array (21).
摘要:
The basic idea comprised of the present invention is to provide a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) arrangement which advantageously uses two buffers, a small first level TLB1 and a larger second level TLB2. The second level TLB feeds address information to the first level TLB when the desired virtual address is not contained in the first level TLB. According to the invention the second level TLB is structured advantageously comprising two n-way set-associative sub-units of which one, a higher level unit covers some higher level address translation levels and the other one, a lower level unit, covers some lower level translation level. According to the present invention, some address information holds some number of middle level virtual address (MLVA) bits, i.e., 8 bits, for example, being able to serve as an index address covering the address range of the higher level sub-unit. Thus, the same information is used as a tag information in the lower-level sub-unit and is used herein as a quick reference in any look-up operation in order to find the absolute address of the concerned virtual address. Further, the commonly used status bits, like; e.g., valid bits, are used in both TLB structures, too.
摘要:
A shifting structure and method which separates a shifting operation into partial shifts which may be executed in different pipeline staged is described herein. In a first pipe stage, an operand is read out and at least one partial shift is accomplished by placing the operand or parts thereof into registers coupled to a shift unit. The shift unit, in a second pipe stage, finalizes the shifting operation executing the remaining partial shifts, thereby reducing the time required for the total shifting operation. A control string is derived in the shift unit based on the shift amount to correct the output of the shifted result as well as providing for parity prediction therefor.