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Organization of MMU

 

The physical address in the RAM where the frame is located does not matter since all the pages are mapped from virtual to physical addresses by the MMU hardware.

 

1. Number of entries in page table = number of pages in the process (Logical Address Space).

 

2. Page table entries contain some information and one of the most important information is Frame number.

 

3. Each process has its own page table.

 

4. Page table is store in main memory.

 

5. Page table size = number of pages x page table entry.

 

6. Page Table Base Register (PTBR) which is provided by CPU points to base register.

 

7. Page Table Length Register (PTLR) indicates the size of the table.