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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Translation lookaside buffer, huge page?

Also known as: translation lookaside buffer · huge page

Definition 3.6 Low-Latency Software · Chapter 3 — Memory Hierarchy and Caches

Programs use virtual addresses, translated to physical addresses through page tables. The translation lookaside buffer (TLB) caches recent translations; a TLB miss makes the processor walk the page tables, several dependent memory accesses. A huge page is a page larger than the base 4 KiB (2 MiB or 1 GiB on x86-64), which one TLB entry covers.

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