Lecture 9 Memory HierarchyVirtual Memory.ppt

Lecture 9: Memory HierarchyVirtual Memory Kai Bu kaibu@ /kaibu/comparch Lab 3 Demo due May 13 Report due May 20 Lab 4 Demo due May 20 Report due May 27 Appendix B.4-B.5some to be revisited in Ch 2 Memory Hierarchy Larger memory for more processes? Virtual Memory Virtual memory --shares a smaller amount of physical memory among many processes; --divides physical memory into blocks and allocates them to different processes; --automatically manages two levels of memory hierarchy, main memory + secondary storage; Virtual Memory Virtual Memory Program uses discontiguous memory locations Use secondary/non-memory storage Virtual Memory Program thinks contiguous memory locations larger physical memory Virtual Memory relocation allows the same program to run in any location in physical memory Virtual Memory On program startup OS copies program into RAM; If not enough RAM, OS stops copying program starts running loaded program segments in RAM; When need un-loaded program segments, OS copies them from disk into RAM; --OS need evict some loaded program segments in RAM; ----OS copies the evicted content back to disk if it is dirty i.e., has been written into changed Virtual Memory