Practice - Cycles for TLB Misses
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Practice Questions
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What does TLB stand for?
💡 Hint: Consider what it does in memory management.
What happens when a page fault occurs?
💡 Hint: Think about where data is stored.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the role of a TLB?
💡 Hint: Think about the role of caches in memory management.
A TLB miss leads to which of the following?
💡 Hint: What happens when the data isn't found in the TLB?
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Challenge Problems
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A process has a TLB hit rate of 90%, and a page fault rate of 10% with an average access time of 20 cycles for hits and 100 cycles for page faults. Calculate the effective access time.
💡 Hint: Use the formula for effective access time, weighing hit and fault rates.
Consider a system with a TLB miss that must service a page fault. If servicing the page fault takes 50 cycles, what happens to the overall access time when this miss occurs every 5 instructions?
💡 Hint: Calculate by averaging total cycles across instructions.
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