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Volume 1, Part 1: Introduction to the Intel
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Itanium
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Architecture
The Itanium architecture has parallel FP instructions which operate on two 32-bit single
precision numbers, resident in a single floating-point register, in parallel and
independently. These instructions significantly increase the single precision
floating-point computation throughput and enhance the performance of 3D intensive
applications and games.
2.11
Multimedia Support
The Itanium architecture has multimedia instructions which treat the general registers
as concatenations of eight 8-bit, four 16-bit, or two 32-bit elements. These instructions
operate on each element in parallel, independent of the others. They are useful for
creating high performance compression/decompression algorithms that are used by
applications which have sound and video. Itanium multimedia instructions are
semantically compatible with HP’s MAX-2* multimedia technology and Intel’s MMX and
SSE technology instructions.
2.12
Intel
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Itanium
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System Architecture Features
2.12.1
Support for Multiple Address Space Operating Systems
Most contemporary commercial operating systems utilize a Multiple Address Space
(MAS) model with the following characteristics:
Protection is enforced among processes by placing each process within a unique
address space. Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLBs), which hold virtual to physical
mappings, often need to be flushed on a process context switch.
Some memory areas may be shared among processes, e.g. kernel areas and shared
libraries. Most operating systems assume at least one local and one global space.
To promote sharing of data between processes, MAS operating systems aggressively
use virtual aliases to map physical memory locations into the address spaces of
multiple processes. Virtual aliases create multiple TLB entries for the same physical
data leading to reduced TLB efficiency.
The MAS model is supported by dividing the virtual address space into several regions.
Region identifiers associated with each region are used to tag translations to a given
address space. On a process switch, region identifiers uniquely identify the set of
translations belonging to a process, thereby avoiding TLB flushes. Region identifiers
also provide a unique intermediate virtual address that help avoid thrashing problems
in virtual-indexed caches and TLBs. Regions provide efficient global/shared areas
between processes, while reducing the occurrences of virtual aliasing.
2.12.2
Support for Single Address Space Operating Systems
A single address space (SAS) operating system style architecture is the basis for much
of the current design work on future 64-bit operating systems. As operating systems
(and other large, complex programs like databases) migrate from monolithic programs
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