Practice Hardware Support (tlb - Translation Look-aside Buffer) (5.3.2) - Memory Management Strategies I - Comprehensive Foundations
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Hardware Support (TLB - Translation Look-aside Buffer)

Practice - Hardware Support (TLB - Translation Look-aside Buffer)

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is a TLB?

💡 Hint: Think about what caches do in general.

Question 2 Easy

What happens on a TLB hit?

💡 Hint: Recall what we discussed about efficiency.

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Question 1

What does TLB stand for?

Translation Look-aside Buffer
Translation Local Buffer
Trace Look-aside Buffer

💡 Hint: Think about what the buffer is doing in translation.

Question 2

A TLB hit occurs when:

True
False

💡 Hint: Can you recall what is meant by a hit?

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Consider a system with a TLB hit ratio of 80%. If accessing memory takes 4 cycles with a TLB hit and 16 cycles with a TLB miss, calculate the average number of cycles per memory access.

💡 Hint: Use the formula for weighted averages.

Challenge 2 Hard

Discuss the trade-offs between increasing TLB size and the potential increase in lookup time due to more entries.

💡 Hint: Think about what happens when you have more items to sort through.

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