Practice - Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)
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Practice Questions
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What does TLB stand for?
💡 Hint: Think about memory caches.
What happens during a TLB miss?
💡 Hint: Recall what you learned about page tables.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the primary function of a TLB?
💡 Hint: Think about the TLB’s role in translation.
True or False: A TLB hit means memory access is delayed.
💡 Hint: Consider the scenarios of hits versus misses.
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Challenge Problems
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A new process is created in a system with a TLB. If the system architecture has a TLB with 256 entries and a hit rate of 99.5%, how many misses would you expect in 10,000 memory accesses?
💡 Hint: Use basic probability to calculate the expected misses.
During execution, a program experiences a series of rapid page faults. Discuss the impact this will have on performance, and suggest two ways to reduce page faults effectively.
💡 Hint: Consider memory management techniques and their impacts on CPU performance.
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