TLB Contents: What’s In There?
Explore the detailed structure of hardware Translation Lookaside Buffers used in virtual memory management. Understand how fully associative TLBs store VPN and PFN values, and how valid, protection, and other control bits influence page access and permissions.
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Fully associative
Let’s look at the contents of the hardware TLB in more detail. A typical TLB might have 32, 64, or 128 entries and be what is called fully associative. Basically, this just means that any given translation can be anywhere in the ...