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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1997
Richard A. Belgard, Saratoga, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An improved address translation method and mechanism for memory management in a computer system is disclosed. A fast physical address is generated in parallel with a fully computed virtual-linear-physical address in a system using segmentation and optional paging. This fast physical address is used for a tentative or speculative memory reference, which reference can be canceled in the event the fast physical address does not match the fully computed address counterpart. In this manner, memory references can be accelerated in a computer system by avoiding a conventional translation scheme requiring two separate and sequential address translation operations—i.e. from virtual to linear, and from linear to physical.