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Re: TLB

Daniele Bellucci <bellucda@tiscali.it> (by way of Daniele Bellucci <bellucda@tiscali.it>) writes:

> Hi,
> i know that a tipical TLB  entry consists of two parts: < key , value >
> I wish to know under IA32/Linux:
> what is the key?

I looked in the pentium manuals (they're great for answering this kind
of thing), and it doesn't really come out and say the key is a virtual
address, but I am pretty sure it is.

> ..and (because you are at it) what is the value?

This they say explicitly.  It's a page table entry or page directory
entry. 

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