Practice - Types of Hits and Misses
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Practice Questions
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What happens during a page fault?
💡 Hint: Refer to what the OS does upon encountering a page fault.
Define a Cache Hit.
💡 Hint: Think about the speed benefits of data retrieval.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when data is not found.
Is a cache miss faster to process than loading from a disk?
💡 Hint: Consider the speed differences in memory accesses.
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Challenge Problems
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Given that page faults occur once every ten instructions in a system where the fault recovery takes 30 cycles, calculate the effective instruction time if a normal instruction takes 5 cycles.
💡 Hint: Consider how to average the times for both occasions of normal instruction and page fault.
Explain how a TLB miss can escalate into a longer wait for data retrieval as it progresses through the memory hierarchy.
💡 Hint: Envision the steps involved for each type of miss and the impact on overall data accessibility.
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