Range Translations for Fast Virtual Memory
Jayneel Gandhi, Vasileios Karakostas, Furkan Ayar, Adrián Cristal, Mark D. Hill, Kathryn S. McKinley, Mario Nemirovsky, Michael M. Swift, Osman Ünsal · IEEE Micro · 2016
Modern workloads suffer high execution-time overhead due to page-based virtual memory. The authors introduce range translations that map arbitrary-sized virtual memory ranges to contiguous physical memory pages while retaining the flexibility of paging. A range translation reduces address translation to a range lookup that delivers near zero virtual memory overhead.