Intel Corporation
Address translation technologies

Abstract:

Examples herein relate to a system that includes a first memory device; a second memory device; and an input-output memory management unit (IOMMU). The IOMMU can search for a virtual-to-physical address translation entry in a first table for a received virtual address and based on a virtual-to-physical address translation entry for the received virtual address not being present in the first table, search a second table for a virtual-to-physical address translation entry for the received virtual address, wherein the first table is stored in the first memory device and the second table is stored in the second memory device. In some examples, based on a virtual-to-physical address translation entry for the received virtual address not being present in the second table, a page table walk is performed to determine a virtual-to-physical address translation for the received virtual address. In some examples, the first table includes an IO translation lookaside buffer (IOTLB).