Maintaining contiguity of virtual to physical address mappings to exploit contiguity-aware translation look-aside buffer hardware

Abstract

Embodiments described herein are generally directed to maintaining contiguity of virtual to physical address mappings to exploit a contiguity-aware TLB. In an example, information regarding a migration set of one or more pages within a physical address space that have been identified for migration from a source tier of memory to a target tier of memory is received in which the physical address space comprises a first contiguous region of physical memory addresses and a VMA includes a second contiguous region of virtual memory addresses corresponding to the first contiguous region. It is determined whether the migration would break contiguity of a mapping maintained by a contiguity-aware TLB between pages of the first contiguous region and pages of the second contiguous region. Responsive an affirmative determination, discontinuities within the mapping resulting from the migration are minimized by intelligently increasing or decreasing the migration set.