INFORMATION PROCESSING NETWORK AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

PURPOSE: To reduce the access time of a first directory by keeping the consistency of the translation of the directory in the network of an information processor adding the translation of an address between an actual address and a virtual address. CONSTITUTION: The first directory inside a main memory 28 in an information processing network 16 adds mapping information for translating the actual address in the main memory into the virtual address. Access to the first directory is prohibited based on a started hardware lock when its processor is keeping a first directory lock in the first directory hardware lock with exclusive control by one optional processor 18 as a condition in order to update the first directory. The translation of the address under a processing is progressed when the lock is obtained.