Patent ID: 9208102
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of managing a translation lookaside buffer, the method comprising: receiving an input virtual address and an input page size indication at a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), the input virtual address and the input page size indication corresponding to an input page; determining a larger of an input page size represented by the input page size indication and an entry page size represented by an entry page size indication of an entry of the TLB, wherein the entry of the TLB corresponds to an entry page; selecting the determined larger of the input page size and the entry page size as a first selected page size; performing a first masked comparison, based on the first selected page size, of the input virtual address to an entry virtual address of the entry; and after performing the first masked comparison, selectively performing a second masked comparison based on a determination, by the TLB, that the TLB contains an unexamined entry.