US Patent Issued to VMWare on March 18 for "Hybrid scheme for performing translation lookaside buffer (TLB) shootdowns" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,956, issued on March 18, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Hybrid scheme for performing translation lookaside buffer (TLB) shootdowns" was invented by Andrei Warkentin (South Elgin, Ill.), Jared McNeill (Quispamsis, Canada), Grant Foudree (Mountain View, Calif.) and Anil Veliyankaramadam (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid scheme is provided for performing translation lookaside buffer (TLB) shootdowns in a computer system whose processing cores support both inter-processor interrupt (IPI) and broadcast TLB invalidate (TLBI) shootdown mechanisms. In one set of embodiments, this hybrid scheme dyna...