Patent ID: 9606935
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for preventing non-temporal entries from entering small critical structures, said method comprising: transferring a first entry from a higher level memory structure to an intermediate buffer; determining a second entry to be evicted from said intermediate buffer and a corresponding value associated with said second entry, wherein the intermediate buffer is a temporary buffer in between the higher level memory structure and a lower level memory structure and operable to temporarily store entries from the higher level memory structure; responsive to a determination that said second entry is frequently accessed, installing said second entry from said intermediate buffer into the lower level memory structure, wherein the intermediate buffer lies in an intermediate position between the higher level memory structure and the lower level memory structure, and wherein said lower level structure is a conversion lookaside buffer, and wherein each entry in said conversion lookaside buffer is a mapping between a guest address and a corresponding native address; and installing said first entry into a slot previously occupied by said second entry in said intermediate buffer.