Micron Technology Incorporated

Sumangal Chakrabarty

Prateek Sharma

Raja V S Halaharivi

Venkat R Gaddam

Di Hsien Ngu

A system includes host interface circuitry to interact with a host system and that includes an address translation circuit, which includes request staging queues to buffer the address translation requests, each includes a virtual address and received from a host interface circuit. Pending response queues buffer respective address translation requests that are waiting for an address translation from the host system while maintaining an order as received within the request stage queues. Reordering buffers reorder address translations, which are to be supplied to the host interface circuits, according to the order maintained within the pending response queues, each address translation includes a physical address mapped to the virtual address of a corresponding address translation request. A cache stores multiple of the address translations, associated with the address translation requests, for future access by the host interface circuits.

Caching host memory address translation data in a memory sub-system

A processing device includes host interface circuitry to interact with a host system and an address translation circuit to handle address translation requests to the host system from host interface circuits. The address translation circuit includes a cache to store address translations associated with the address translation requests for future access by host interface circuits. A page request interface (PRI) handler tracks translation miss messages received from the host interface circuits, each translation miss message including a virtual address of a miss at the cache. The PRI handler removes duplicate translation miss messages having an identical virtual address and creates page miss requests from non-duplicate translation miss messages that are categorized into page request groups, each page request group corresponding to a host interface circuit of the host interface circuits. The PRI handler queues the page request groups to be sent to a translation agent of the host system.

Page request interface (PRI) handler operational support in relation to caching host memory address translation data in a memory sub-system

A device includes an address translation circuit of host interface circuitry to handle address translation requests to a host system from a host queue interface circuit. The address translation circuit includes cache to store address translations associated with the address translation requests. The host queue interface circuit, coupled to the address translation circuit, is to: pause command fetch arbitration on a submission queue of the host system that is targeted by an address translation request that missed at the cache; trigger a page request interface (PRI) handler to send a page miss request to a translation agent (TA) of the host, the page miss request including a virtual address of the address translation request; receive a restart message from the PRI handler upon the PRI handler receiving a page miss response from the TA; and restart command arbitration on the submission queue that was paused responsive to the restart message.

Page request interface support in handling host submission queues and completion automation associated with caching host memory address translation data

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