IOMMU: Strategies for mitigating the IOTLB bottleneck

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6161 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 256-274

  Amit, Nadav ^a   Ben Yehuda, Muli ^b   Yassour, Ben Ami ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS RESOLUTION; DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS; I/O DEVICE; INPUT/OUTPUT; MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT; MEMORY PROTECTION; MISS-RATE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PHYSICAL MEMORY; SYSTEM SOFTWARES; TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFER;

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; PHYSICAL ADDRESSES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNITS;

EID: 84857776767     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24322-6_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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