Patent 7899972 was granted and assigned to Intel on March, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes switching between a first address space and a second address space, determining if the second address space exists in a list of address spaces; and maintaining entries of the first address space in a translation buffer after the switching. In such manner, overhead associated with such a context switch may be reduced.