Practice Computer Organization And Architecture: A Pedagogical Aspect (13.1) - TLBs and Page Fault Handling

Practice: Computer Organization and Architecture: A Pedagogical Aspect

Lesson 13.1TLBs and Page Fault Handling

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Question 1.
Define a page table in your own words.
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Look for its function in memory management.
Question 2.
What does TLB stand for?
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Think about how it helps speed up memory access.
3Question 3.
What does TLB stand for?
- Translation Lookaside Buffer
- Table Lookup Buffer
- Translation Local Buffer
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Think about its role in page address mapping.
4Question 4.
True or False: A page fault occurs when an accessed page is present in memory.
- True
- False
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Recall the definition of a page fault.
Question 5.
A computer has a 32-bit address space and 4KB pages. If the page table has to be loaded every time a context switch occurs, what percentage of CPU time would be wasted loading a page table with 1 million entries if each takes 100ns to load?
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Consider the time per page and total entries.
Question 6.
Evaluate the trade-offs of implementing page tables in hardware versus software, especially regarding speed and address space limits.
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Think about where each implementation excels and fails.

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