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:	Dombrowski, Chris, Kornegay, Marcus Lathan, Pase, Douglas Michael
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
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