This week at LWN: Memory part 3: Virtual Memory

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 20, 2007 10:14 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Ulrich Drepper
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The virtual memory subsystem of a processor implements the virtual address spaces provided to each process. This makes each process think it is alone in the system. The list of advantages of virtual memory are described in detail elsewhere so they will not be repeated here. Instead this section concentrates on the actual implementation details of the virtual memory subsystem and the associated costs.

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