Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)
¢ A small cache of page table entries with fast access by MMU
TLB
2
PTE
VPN
3
VA
CPU
MMU
1
PA
4
Cache/
Memory
Data 5
Typically, a TLB hit eliminates the k memory accesses required to do a page table lookup.
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Review: Virtual Memory & Physical
Memory
Virtual address
Physical page
number or
Valid disk address
PTE 0 0
null
1101 Nhomakorabea0
null
0
PTE 7 1
Memory resident page table (DRAM)
Virtual Memory Implementation
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CS 3007 20th February 2018
(lecture notes derived from material from Phil Gibbons, Dave O’Hallaron, and Randy Bryant)
Physical memory (DRAM)
VP 1
PP 0
VP 2
VP 7
VP 4
PP 3
Virtual memory (disk)
VP 1 VP 2 VP 3 VP 4 VP 6 VP 7
¢ A page table contains page table entries (PTEs) that map virtual pages to physical pages.
(bits per field for our simple example)
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¢ Simple memory system example ¢ Case study: Core i7/Linux memory system ¢ Memory mapping
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¢ Components of the physical address (PA)
§ PPO: Physical page offset (same as VPO) § PPN: Physical page number § CO: Byte offset within cache line § CI: Cache index § CT: Cache tag
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Review of Symbols
¢ Basic Parameters
§ N = 2n : Number of addresses in
virtual address space
§ M = 2m : Number of addresses in
physical address space
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Simple Memory System Example
¢ Addressing
§ 14-bit virtual addresses § 12-bit physical address § Page size = 64 bytes
13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
§ P = 2p : Page size (bytes)
¢ Components of the virtual address (VA)
§ TLBI: TLB index § TLBT: TLB tag § VPO: Virtual page offset § VPN: Virtual page number
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Translating with a k-level Page Table
¢ Having multiple levels greatly reduces page table size
Page table base register (part of the process’ context)
at offset
S = 2s sets
Address of word:
t bits s bits b bits
CT
CI CO
tag index offset
data begins at this offset
v
tag
012
B-1
valid bit
B = 2b bytes per cache block (the data) 5
n-1 VPN 1
VIRTUAL ADDRESS
VPN 2
...
VPN k
p-1
0
VPO
the Level 1 a Level 2 page table page table
... ...
a Level k page table
PPN
m-1 PPN
p-1
0
PPO
PHYSICAL ADDRESS
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¢ 16 entries
¢ 4-way associative
TLBT
TLBI
13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
VPN
VPO
Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)
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Set Associative Cache: Read
E = 2e lines per set
• Locate set • Check if any line in set
has matching tag • Yes + line valid: hit • Locate data starting
VPN Virtual Page Number
VPO Virtual Page Offset
11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
PPN Physical Page Number
PPO Physical Page Offset
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Simple Memory System TLB