Practice - TLB Replacement Strategies
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Practice Questions
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What is the function of a TLB?
💡 Hint: Think about the role of a cache in general.
What happens during a TLB hit?
💡 Hint: Recall the benefit of cache memory.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is a TLB?
💡 Hint: Recall what a TLB specifically caches.
True or False: A TLB hit results in accessing slower memory.
💡 Hint: Think about the definition of hits.
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Challenge Problems
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A system has a 128-entry TLB with a 5% miss rate. If the CPU accesses memory 1,000,000 times, how many accesses will hit the TLB?
💡 Hint: Calculate hits using the miss rate.
Discuss the trade-offs between implementing LRU versus random replacement in a large TLB.
💡 Hint: Think about costs vs. efficiency between both methods.
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