Memory Organization

• Two-level hierarchical memory map

  • Page directory table
    • Page directory entries (PDEs) point to page table
    • One page directory table per process
    • Location in page directory register
  • Page table
    • Page table entries (PTEs) point to page frames
  • Page frame
    • Contains page of data

• TLB (translation lookaside buffer) accelerates address translation

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