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Question on Inverted Page Table

 

Question

A computer system, using inverted page table where Logical address space is 16MB and physical address space 8GB, and page size are 4KB. Memory is byte-addressable and page entry size is 8 bytes. What is the page table size?

 

(A) 16 KB

(B) 128 KB 

(C) 16 MB

(D) 128 MB

 

Solution:

Please follow the previous chapter  Inverted Page Table with examples before seeing the examples.

 

Inverted Page Table Size (PTS):

 

Because of inverted page table indexed by frame number so, the size of the inverted page table depends on the number of frames in main memory or physical memory.

 

So, Inverted Page Table Size = Number of frames × Page table entry

 

 

So, option (C) is correct.

 

Question   

(MCQ) 

Consider a paging system where the table contains page number and corresponding process id whereas frame number treated as an index of this table. This concept of the table in the paging system is called

 

(a) Page Table   

(b) Frame Table   

(c) Inverted Page Table 

(d) Multi-process page table

 

Solution:

 

Please follow the previous chapter  Inverted Page Table with examples before seeing the examples.

 

This is the concept of the inverted page table for more details please see chapter  Inverted Page Table with examples.

 

Option (c) is correct.