gallier2 (gallier2.delete@this.gmx.de) on June 4, 2013 2:06 am wrote:
> Sebastian Soeiro (sebastian_2896.delete@this.hotmail.com) on June 3, 2013 9:51 am wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your informative post!
> >
> > - If an OS does not support super pages, does that mean it must use MANY 4KB entries
> > for one large file? Also, must a superpage be used for one item? I dont quite understand
> > what can be mapped under a 4 KB, 2 MB, 4 MB, and 1 GB page. Must every entry be no more
> > than one file or a piece of file? Or can a 1 GB page contain multiple items?
> >
> > - So the TLB is not ONLY a look-up board, but also a cache for data on
> > its own? Doesnt this kind of reduce the point of an L1 data cache?
> >
> > Thank you for your answers!
> >
>
> Hi Sebastian, here a link to a blog which explains very clearly and with
> lots of details how the whole virtual memory of modern OSs work.
> http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-the-kernel-manages-your-memory
>
>

Oh wow, that definitely took me a few reads to "get."

Thanks for the informative site! It looks like a great resource!