REDUCING OVER-PURGING OF STRUCTURES ASSOCIATED WITH ADDRESS TRANSLATION USING AN ARRAY OF TAGS
Patent №
US 10,241,924
Granted
2019-03-26
Filed 2016
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
15212436
A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of memory is being used by a guest control program to back an address translation structure. The marking capability includes setting an indicator in one or more locations associated with the block of memory. In a further aspect, the marking capability includes a purging capability that limits the purging of translation look-aside buffers and other such structures based on the marking.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 391800247
Assignors
BRADBURY, JONATHAN D., JACOBI, CHRISTIAN, SAPORITO, ANTHONY
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