International Business Machines Corporation

Michael Johannes Jaspers

Markus Kaltenbach

Ulrich Mayer

Girish Gopala Kurup

The present disclosure relates to a method of operating a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) arrangement for a processor supporting virtual addressing, wherein multiple translation engines are used to perform translations on request of one of a plurality of dedicated processor units. The method comprises: maintaining by a cache unit a dependency matrix for the engines to track for each processing unit if an engine is assigned to the each processing unit for a table walk. The cache unit may block a processing unit from allocating an engine to a translation request when the engine is already assigned to the processing unit in the dependency matrix.

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Sindelfingen, Germany

Michael Johannes Jaspers