TECHNOLOGIES FOR OFFLOAD DEVICE FETCHING OF ADDRESS TRANSLATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20210149815A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-20

    申请号:US17129496

    申请日:2020-12-21

    Abstract: Techniques for offload device address translation fetching are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, a processor of a compute device sends a translation fetch descriptor to an offload device before sending a corresponding work descriptor to the offload device. The offload device can request translations for virtual memory address and cache the corresponding physical addresses for later use. While the offload device is fetching virtual address translations, the compute device can perform other tasks before sending the corresponding work descriptor, including operations that modify the contents of the memory addresses whose translation are being cached. Even if the offload device does not cache the translations, the fetching can warm up the cache in a translation lookaside buffer. Such an approach can reduce the latency overhead that the offload device may otherwise incur in sending memory address translation requests that would be required to execute the work descriptor.

    Address translation for scalable linked devices

    公开(公告)号:US10969992B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-06

    申请号:US16236473

    申请日:2018-12-29

    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices can include a processing engine implemented at least partially in hardware, the processing engine to process memory transactions; a memory element to index physical address and virtual address translations; and a memory controller logic implemented at least partially in hardware, the memory controller logic to receive an index from the processing engine, the index corresponding to a physical address and a virtual address; identify a physical address based on the received index; and provide the physical address to the processing engine. The processing engine can use the physical address for memory transactions in response to a streaming workload job request.

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