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Virtual translation lookaside buffer

  • US 6,907,600 B2
  • Filed: 12/27/2000
  • Issued: 06/14/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • creating a guest translation data structure to be used for address translation operations, the guest translation data structure being managed by a guest operating system;

    creating an active translation data structure based on the guest translation data structure, the active translation data structure being managed by a virtual machine monitor (VMM); and

    periodically modifying content of the active translation data structure to conform to content of the guest translation data structure, the content of the active translation data structure being used by a processor to cache address translations in a translation-lookaside buffer (TLB).

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