Quiz submission record for quiz7-1-2 at Tue Aug  3 10:46:47 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
Well, the translation lookaside buffer keeps track of recently used address mappings to avoid an access to the page table. in other words, they are special types of caches that are specifically used to minimize miss rates by using address mappings. using address mappings is the key to lowering down the miss rates.

Your Answer for Question 2:
YES! Generally, we have seen that the bits to the left give the broad range and as you move toward the right you narrow down what you're searching for. it's more a convention, the bits used to select the super page are chosen in the far left because they choose the super page, then as we narrow down what we're searching for we move further toward the right. The same idea is used with caches, where we go from index to tags to word offset and byte offset all go from the left direction to the right as we narrow down what we're looking for!


Your unique submission ID is quiz7-1-2-cs61c-ch-1091555207-2380.