Applying quality of service (QoS) to a translation lookaside...

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Address formation – Address mapping

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ABSTRACT:
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) having storage locations each including a priority indicator field to store a priority level associated with an agent that requested storage of the data in the TLB, and an identifier field to store an identifier of the agent, where the TLB is apportioned according to a plurality of priority levels. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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