Wednesday, February 18, 2009

What did you understand by the term Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)?

n a cached system, the base addresses of the last few referenced pages is maintained in registers called the TLB that aids in faster lookup.TLB contains those page-table entries that have been most recently used.
Normally, each virtual memory reference causes 2 physical memory accesses-- one to fetch appropriate page-table entry, and one to fetch the desired data. Using TLB in-between, this is reduced to just one physical memory access in cases of TLB-hit.

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