Lecture 13Examples of Memory Management.ppt

Lecture 13:Examples of Memory Management MVS Multiple Virtual Storage Operating System (IBM) The byte index specifies one of 4KB within a page; the page index specifies one of 256 pages within a segment; the segment index identifies one of 2048 user-visible segments (231 bytes –2GB virtual storage) IBM System/370 Uses a two-level memory structure and refers o the two levels as segments and pages Page size: 2KB or 4KB Segment size (fixed): 64KB or 1MB 24 – bit address structure BUT? SYSTEM 370/XA XA: extended addressing 31 – bit address scheme System 370/ESA Latest version: Enterprise System Architecture MVS address space structure MVS address space structure MVS address space structure 370/ESA address translation WINDOWS NT Windows NT was designed to be implemented on a variety of processors. One of the most important platforms for Windows NT is the Intel 486. Page size: 4KB Windows NT – Address Spaces Unsegmented unpaged memory: The virtual address is the same as the physical address, which is useful in low complexity, high performance controller applications Unsegmented paged memory: Memory is viewed as a paged linear address space. Protection and management of memory are done by paging Segmented unpaged memory: Memory is viewed as a collection of logical address spaces. The advantages of this view over a paged approach is that it affords protection down to the level of a single byte if necessary. It guarantees that the translation table needed is on-chip when the segment is in memory. Hence the segmented unpaged memory results in predictable access times Segmented paged memory: Segmentation is used to define logical memory partitions subject to access control and paging is used to manage the allocation of memory within partitions. The format of the virtual address includes the following fields: Table indicator (TI): indicates whether the global segment table or a local segment table should be used for translation Segment number: is the number of the segment. T