The PCs and smartphones we use every day run reasonably comfortably even when many apps are running at the same time, don't ...

A processor's translation lookaside buffer (TLB) caches the mappings from virtual to physical addresses. Looking up virtual addresses is expensive, so good performance often depends on making the best ...

Abstract: The TLB is increasingly a bottleneck for big data applications. In most designs, the number of TLB entries are highly constrained by latency requirements and growing much more slowly than ...

The memory management unit in almost any contemporary processor can handle multiple page sizes, but the Linux kernel almost always restricts itself to just the smallest of those sizes - 4096 bytes on ...