ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,240, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Translation lookaside buffer prewarming" was invented by Daniel Brad Wu (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes executing, by a processor core, a first task; scheduling, by a scheduler, a second task to be executed by the processor core upon completion of executing the first task; responsive to scheduling the second task, providing, by the scheduler, a prewarming message to a memory management unit (MMU) coupled to the processor core; and responsive to receiving the prewarming message, fetching, by the MMU, a page table specified by a pag...