Practice Inverted Page Table (12.3) - Hierarchical Page Tables - Computer Organisation and Architecture - Vol 3

Practice: Inverted Page Table

Lesson 12.3Hierarchical Page Tables

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Question 1.
What is the primary purpose of a page table?
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Consider what happens when a virtual address must be accessed by the CPU.
Question 2.
What does an inverted page table track?
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Think about how traditional and inverted page tables differ.
3Question 3.
What does an inverted page table do?
- It maps virtual addresses to physical addresses
- It tracks physical pages only
- It is used only by 32-bit systems
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Think about the primary purpose of an inverted page table.
4Question 4.
True or False: Inverted page tables simplify the overall architecture of memory management.
- True
- False
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Reflect on the complexity introduced by searching through the table.
Question 5.
An inverted page table in a 64-bit system is tracking virtual addresses from 1 to 256. How would the inverted page table be structured?
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Consider how the range of virtual addresses translates within a physical framework.
Question 6.
Explain how hash functions affect the performance of an inverted page table based on the number of entries.
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Think about how hash functions limit the range of things we need to look through.

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