Patent ID: 9710382
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of facilitating address translation in a computing environment, said method comprising: obtaining an address to be translated from the address to another address using a hierarchy of address translation structures, the hierarchy of address translation structures comprising a plurality of levels; determining, based on an indicator in an address translations structure of the hierarchy of address translation structures, that at a last level of the plurality of levels that translation through the hierarchy of address translation structures is split into a plurality of translation paths, wherein the plurality of levels comprises 1 to n levels and n is the last level in the hierarchy of the address translation structures, wherein n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and wherein the indicator is in the address translation structure at the last level of the plurality of levels; traversing the hierarchy of address translation structures to obtain information to be used to translate the address to the another address, wherein the traversing comprises selecting, based on the determining and based on an attribute of the address to be translated, one translation path of the plurality of translation paths from which to obtain the information to be used to translate the address to the another address, wherein the another address is different for each path, wherein the selecting further comprises: