Practice Overview Of Inverted Page Table (12.3.1) - Hierarchical Page Tables
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Overview of Inverted Page Table

Practice - Overview of Inverted Page Table

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is the main advantage of using an inverted page table?

💡 Hint: Think about how traditional page tables function.

Question 2 Easy

What does each entry in an inverted page table contain?

💡 Hint: Consider what information is needed to identify a page.

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Question 1

What does an inverted page table track?

Virtual pages
Physical pages
Both

💡 Hint: Remember the focus of inverted tables.

Question 2

True or False: An inverted page table improves memory usage by maintaining a dedicated table for each process.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about how inverted page tables function.

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Challenge 1 Hard

A system has 256MB of physical memory and supports up to 1024 processes running simultaneously, using inverted page tables. Calculate how many entries would be expected in the inverted page table if each process had a maximum address space of 1GB.

💡 Hint: Think about how physical memory size relates to the number of page frames.

Challenge 2 Hard

How would you redesign an inverted page table for performance gains in a system designed for rapid context switching between processes?

💡 Hint: Consider how context switching might affect memory access patterns.

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