Practice - Context Switch and Cold Misses
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Practice Questions
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What is a context switch?
💡 Hint: Think about multitasking in an operating system.
What happens during a cold miss?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when cache memory doesn't have the required data.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What occurs during a context switch?
💡 Hint: Think about what has to happen for one process to pause while another starts.
True or False: A cold miss is when a process can access all of its required data from the cache.
💡 Hint: What happens when data isn't found in cache?
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Challenge Problems
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Evaluate the impact of cache design on the performance of systems that frequently switch processes. What could be optimized in such designs?
💡 Hint: Consider how cache design can adapt to a more dynamic workload.
Propose a new algorithm that can improve TLB hit rates during context switching. What factors should be taken into account in your design?
💡 Hint: Think about how historical access patterns might inform future needs.
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