Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070288718
Filing Date: June 12, 2006
Inventors: Udayakumar Cholleti, Sean McEnroe, Stan J. Studzinski
Assignee: Sun Microsystems
Current U.S. Classification: 711, 711/170000
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The method of Claim 9, wherein determining whether the particular buffer is included in the page tables further comprises:
if the buffer that contains the first tag value is not present in the first list of buffers, then performing steps comprising:
reading a second tag value from the buffer that is located at the particular memory address;
generating a second hash value based on the second tag value;
determining whether a buffer that contains the second tag value is present in a second list of buffers to which a hash bucket that corresponds to the second hash value refers; and
if the buffer that contains the second tag value is present in the second list of buffers, then concluding that the particular buffer is included in the page tables.