Improving virtualization in the presence of software managed translation lookaside buffers

Proceedings - International Symposium on Computer Architecture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 120-129

  Chang, Xiaotao ^a   Franke, Hubertus ^b   Ge, Yi ^a   Liu, Tao ^a   Wang, Kun ^a   Xenidis, Jimi ^c   Chen, Fei ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a  

^a IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Qualcomm Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF HARDWARES; HARDWARE EXTENSION; INTERRUPT HANDLING; MEMORY MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AND HARDWARES; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; TRANSLATION LOOKASIDE BUFFER;

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; HARDWARE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84881187226     PISSN: 10636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2485922.2485933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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