Fine-Grained vs. Coarse-Grained Segmentation
Explore the concepts of fine-grained and coarse-grained segmentation in operating systems. Understand how these segmentation methods divide address spaces, their hardware requirements, and their impact on memory utilization. This lesson helps you grasp how segmentation flexibility enables better dynamic memory allocation and management.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Most of our examples thus far have focused on systems with just a few segments (i.e., code, stack, heap); we can think of this segmentation as coarse-grained, as it chops up the address space into relatively large, coarse chunks. However, some early systems (e.g., ...