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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2009
Khubaib Khubaib, Austin, TX (US);
Moinuddin Khalil Ahmed Qureshi, White Plains, NY (US);
Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, New York, NY (US);
Khubaib Khubaib, Austin, TX (US);
Moinuddin Khalil Ahmed Qureshi, White Plains, NY (US);
Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, New York, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus to reduce broadcasts in multiprocessors including a plurality of processors; a plurality of memory caches associated with the processors; a plurality of translation lookaside buffers (TLBs) associated with the processors; and a physical memory shared with the processors memory caches and TLBs; wherein each TLB includes a plurality of entries for translation of a page of addresses from virtual memory to physical memory, each TLB entry having page characterization information indicating whether the page is private to one processor or shared with more than one processor. Also disclosed is a computer program product and method to reduce broadcasts in multiprocessors.