The design of the UNIX operating system
The design of the UNIX operating system
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Adaptive storage management for very large virtual/real storage systems
ISCA '91 Proceedings of the 18th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
A simulation based study of TLB performance
ISCA '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Tradeoffs in supporting two page sizes
ISCA '92 Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Architectural support for translation table management in large address space machines
ISCA '93 Proceedings of the 20th annual international symposium on computer architecture
Surpassing the TLB performance of superpages with less operating system support
ASPLOS VI Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
A new page table for 64-bit address spaces
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Reducing TLB and memory overhead using online superpage promotion
ISCA '95 Proceedings of the 22nd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
UNIX internals: the new frontiers
UNIX internals: the new frontiers
The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system
The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system
PA-RISC 2.0 architecture
The art of computer programming, volume 1 (3rd ed.): fundamental algorithms
The art of computer programming, volume 1 (3rd ed.): fundamental algorithms
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The working set model for program behavior
Communications of the ACM
UltraSPARC: the next generation superscalar 64-bit SPARC
COMPCON '95 Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Computer Society International Conference
Internal architecture of Alpha 21164 microprocessor
COMPCON '95 Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Computer Society International Conference
Use of superpages and subblocking in the address translation hierarchy
Use of superpages and subblocking in the address translation hierarchy
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Practical, transparent operating system support for superpages
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - OSDI '02: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Practical, transparent operating system support for superpages
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Advanced non-distributed operating systems course
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Using 4KB page size for virtual memory is obsolete
IRI'09 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE international conference on Information Reuse & Integration
Exploiting semantics of virtual memory to improve the efficiency of the on-chip memory system
Euro-Par'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Parallel Processing
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To reduce performance degradation from Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) misses without significant increase in TLB size, most modern processors implement TLBs that support multiple pagesizes. For example, Hewlett-Packard's PA-8000 processor allows 8 hardware pagesizes, in multiples of four, ranging from 4 Kbytes to 64 Mbytes. In implementing multiple pagesize support in HP-UX, we chose to create large pages at page-fault service time. We have a buddy system allocator that provides interfaces for allocating and freeing multiple pagesizes. We maintain the Virtual Memory (VM) data structures such as the pagetable entry, virtual page frame descriptor, and physical page frame descriptor based on the smallest pagesize, and represent a large pagesize as a collection of these base page-size structures. In our implementation, VM operations on a large pagesize such as 16KB are carried out by looping over the 4KB-based constituent VM data structures. Our system offers significant application performance improvement when using large pagesizes.