| 摘要 |
A computer system having a core logic chipset that functions as a bridge between an Accelerated Graphics Port ("AGP") bus device such as a graphics controller, and a host processor and computer system memory wherein a Graphics Address Remapping Table ("GART table") is used by the core logic chipset to remap virtual memory addresses used by the AGP graphics controller into physical memory addresses that reside in the computer system memory. The GART table enables the AGP graphics controller to work in contiguous virtual memory address space, but actually use non-contiguous blocks or pages of physical system memory to store textures, command lists and the like. The GART table is made up of a plurality of entries, each entry comprising an address pointer to a base address of a page of graphics data in memory, and feature flags that may be used to customize the associated page. The core logic chipset may cache a subset of the most recently used GART table entries to increase AGP performance when performing the address translation. A GART cache entry control register is used by an application programming interface, such as a GART miniport driver, to indicate to the core logic chipset that an individual GART table entry in the chipset cache should be invalidated and/or updated. The core logic chipset may then perform the required invalidate and/or update operation on the individual GART table entry without having to flush or otherwise disturb the other still relevant GART table entries stored in the cache.
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