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15-213 Recitation 11 – 4/9/01

15-213 Recitation 11 – 4/9/01. Outline More Cacheing Virtual Memory. Shaheen Gandhi e-mail: sgandhi@andrew.cmu.edu Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30 – 2:30 Wean 3108. Reminders Lab 4 – Due 4/11, 11:59 PM Exam 2 – 4/17, DH 2210. More Cacheing. Performance Analysis

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15-213 Recitation 11 – 4/9/01

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  1. 15-213 Recitation 11 – 4/9/01 Outline • More Cacheing • Virtual Memory Shaheen Gandhi e-mail: sgandhi@andrew.cmu.edu Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30 – 2:30 Wean 3108 • Reminders • Lab 4 – Due 4/11, 11:59 PM • Exam 2 – 4/17, DH 2210

  2. More Cacheing • Performance Analysis • What good’s a cache if you don’t use it? • Miss Rate, Hit Time, Miss Penalty • Types of Misses: • Compulsory, Capacity, Conflict

  3. Virtual Memory • A transparent system for mapping memory spaces • Enables both versatility and security • Virtual Memory and Caches are two separate things, but they draw on the same ideas

  4. Virtual Memory • Physical Memory is thought of as a bunch of “pages” (equal sized blocks) • The Page Table provides mapping between virtual and physical address spaces • Who creates this? • The OS • The processor works with virtual addresses

  5. Address Translation • Processor asks for word from memory • Hardware maps virtual address to physical address [Page Table lookup] • Page Fault? • Ask the operating system • Memory receives request as physical address • Everybody’s happy

  6. Address Translation • Sounds great! • Not really. • Page Table resides in memory • Processor runs at ~1GHz; Memory runs at ~8ns (120MHz) • Since the Page Table resides in main memory, we’d spend 10 clock cycles on every instruction • Solution? • A Cache (Translation Lookaside Buffer)

  7. Virtual Memory: Reasons • Why go through all this pain? • Versatility • Processes can act like they own the place • Enables multi-tasking operating systems • Dynamically allocate portions of memory to processes as needed (i.e., malloc) • Security • Processes can’t always act like they own the place

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