Qualcomm Incorporated

Muhammad Umar Choudry

Serag Gadelrab

Meghal Varia

Jason Edward Podaima

Kyle Ernewein

Paul Christopher John Wiercienski

Carlos Javier Moreira

Alexander Miretsky

Manokanthan Somasundaram

Systems and methods for pre-fetching address translations in a memory management unit (MMU) are disclosed. The MMU detects a triggering condition related to one or more translation caches associated with the MMU, the triggering condition associated with a trigger address, generates a sequence descriptor describing a sequence of address translations to pre-fetch into the one or more translation caches, the sequence of address translations comprising a plurality of address translations corresponding to a plurality of address ranges adjacent to an address range containing the trigger address, and issues an address translation request to the one or more translation caches for each of the plurality of address translations, wherein the one or more translation caches pre-fetch at least one address translation of the plurality of address translations into the one or more translation caches when the at least one address translation is not present in the one or more translation caches.

Speculative pre-fetch of translations for a memory management unit (MMU)

Systems and methods relate to performing address translations in a multithreaded memory management unit (MMU). Two or more address translation requests can be received by the multithreaded MMU and processed in parallel to retrieve address translations to addresses of a system memory. If the address translations are present in a translation cache of the multithreaded MMU, the address translations can be received from the translation cache and scheduled for access of the system memory using the translated addresses. If there is a miss in the translation cache, two or more address translation requests can be scheduled in two or more translation table walks in parallel.

Multi-threaded translation and transaction re-ordering for memory management units

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Markham, Canada

Muhammad Umar Choudry