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Comment by cesarb

> and if the page containing that part of the page table isn't in the TLB you need to read that page...

I thought page tables used physical addresses, which are accessed directly without any TLB lookup (except when nested paging during virtualization, which adds another level of indirection). Of course, the processor still needs to read each level into the data cache(s) while doing a page table walk.

parent cesarb 7 years ago

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