Page Tables

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