Marvell Asia Pte., Ltd.

Waseem Kraipak

Brian Michael Rogers

Pradipkumar Arunbhai Thaker

A method of reducing page walk latency resulting from a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) miss comprises providing a page fetch/walk logic module disposed between a coherent fabric and a memory controller. Upon receiving a notification of a TLB miss, performing, by the page fetch/walk logic module, a page table walk of a virtual address to produce a corresponding physical address. The method may further comprise forming, by a memory management unit, a TLB request that comprises a virtual address, and a request type field. The request type field may comprise (i) an indication that a TLB miss has occurred and (ii) a specification of a number of stages required of the page table walk.

Innovative way to improve the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) miss latency

A hardware-based compaction accelerator may comprise two or more decoders, a merge iterator, a compaction module, and an encoder. Each of the decoders converts a sorted string table (SST) files into a corresponding key-value (KV) format data stream. The merge iterator receives a KV format data stream from each of the decoders, and combines the KV format data streams into a single KV format data stream. The compaction module receives the composite KV format data stream and produces a compacted data stream. The compacted data stream contains less data that is in the composite KV format data stream. The encoder converts the composite KV format data stream back into one or more output SST files. The compaction accelerator may be configured to perform only a subset of the processing available from the decoders, merge iterator, compaction module, and encoder, and may be configured through the Internet using a cloud-based processor.

Method and system for performing a compaction/merge job using a merge based tile architecture

Disclosed is a method of recovering corrupted data, comprising providing a FIFO storage structure on the memory controller, and providing an error correction code (ECC) generator to the memory device, the ECC generator configured to generate ECC check bits based on a data word. For each data word, the method comprises storing a copy of the data word, appended check bits, and associated address into the FIFO storage structure; generating expected check bits based on the data word; when the expected check bits match the appended check bits, storing the data word and appended check bits to the memory device; and when the expected check bits do not match the appended check bits, and an error in the data word is uncorrectable, replacing the data word and appended check bits with the copy of the data word and appended check bits that were stored in the FIFO storage structure.

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Hyderabad Telangana, India

Waseem Kraipak