Quiz submission record for quiz7-1-2 at Tue Aug  3 00:27:54 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
TLB miss rates are much smaller because, first of all, there are just much fewer mappings from a virtual address to a physical address than everything that could be in memory.  Since there are fewer things that we can be looking for, the miss rate decreases.  Second of all, TLB caches are fully associative, decreasing the miss rate.

Your Answer for Question 2:
No, because in a way, the 2PN bits are like the index, and the SPN are like the tag bits of a cache.  It just would not be like a normal address if we had the 2PN bits to the left, and the SPN bits to the right, because we would have to reverse them to find the internal addresses within a page.


Your unique submission ID is quiz7-1-2-cs61c-el-1091518074-3052.