Page Tables

About this episode

Page tables provide the mapping between virtual memory and physical memory for each process. This means it needs to be as efficient and as fast as possible. I explore the inner workings of page tables in this episode.

0:00 Intro
2:00 Virtual Memory

⁃ ⁃ 8:00 MMU

10:00 Page Tables

⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 11:30 Single Table Byte Addressability

⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 16:00 Single Table Page addressability

⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 19:00 Multi-level Paging (Radix tree)

⁃ ⁃ 31:00 Huge Tables

⁃ ⁃ 33:00 TLB

⁃ ⁃ Summary

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