SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IMPROVING TASK SWITCHING AND PAGE TRANSLATION PERFORMANCE UTILIZING A MULTILEVEL TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFER

A system and method of improved task switching in a data processing system. First, a first-level cache memory casts out an invalidated page table entry and an associated first page directory base address to a second-level cache memory. Then, the second-level cache memory determines if a task switch...

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Hauptverfasser: PASE DOUGLAS MICHAEL, DOMBROWSKI CHRIS, KORNEGAY MARCUS LATHAN
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Sprache:eng
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