Practice - Calculating Page Table Sizes
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Practice Questions
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What is a page table?
💡 Hint: Think about how virtual memory functions in a system.
What’s the benefit of hierarchical page tables?
💡 Hint: Consider how they break down information.
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What technique reduces page table sizes by organizing them into multiple levels?
💡 Hint: Think about how many layers of organization are beneficial for large data structures.
True or False: Inverted page tables map logical addresses directly.
💡 Hint: Consider how physical and logical addresses are represented.
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Given a 32-bit address space with a 4KB page size, calculate the size of a hierarchical page table with three levels.
💡 Hint: Use the concept of dividing the address space by the page size, then determine how many entries in each hierarchical level.
Discuss how real-time applications could benefit from hashed page tables over hierarchical ones.
💡 Hint: Think about how processing speed affects application performance.
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