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Background
Demand Paging
Copy-on-Write
Page Replacement
Allocation of Frames
Thrashing
Memory-Mapped Files
Other Considerations
Operating-System Examples
9.2
Objectives
To explain the concepts of demand paging, page-replacement algorithms, and allocation of page frames
9.3
Background
9.4
Background
Logical address space can therefore be much larger than physical address space
Demand paging
Demand segmentation
9.5
9.6
Virtual-address Space
9.7
Enables sparse address spaces with holes left for growth, dynamically linked libraries, etc
9.8
9.9
Demand Paging
Lazy swapper never swaps a page into memory unless page will be needed
Swapper that deals with pages is a pager
9.10
9.11
Valid-Invalid Bit
Frame #
valid-invalid bit
v
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page table
9.12
9.13
Page Fault
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
If there is a reference to a page, first reference to that page will trap to operating system:
page fault
Operating system looks at another table to decide:
9.14
OS sets instruction pointer to first instruction of process, non-memory-resident -> page fault
Actually, a given instruction could access multiple pages -> multiple page faults
Instruction restart
9.15
Instruction Restart
9.16
9.17
1.
2.
3.
4.
Check that the page reference was legal and determine the location of the page on the disk
5.
Wait in a queue for this device until the read request is serviced
2.
3.
6.
7.
8.
Save the registers and process state for the other user
9.
10. Correct the page table and other tables to show page is now in memory
11. Wait for the CPU to be allocated to this process again
12. Restore the user registers, process state, and new page table, and then resume the interrupted
instruction
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9.18
if p = 0 no page faults
9.19
p < .0000025
9.20
Demand page in from program binary on disk, but discard rather than paging out when freeing frame
9.21
Copy-on-Write
Copy-on-Write (COW) allows both parent and child processes to initially share the same pages in
memory
If either process modifies a shared page, only then is the page copied
COW allows more efficient process creation as only modified pages are copied
vfork() variation on fork() system call has parent suspend and child using copy-on-write address
space of parent
Very efficient
9.22
9.23
9.24
Page replacement find some page in memory, but not really in use, page it out
Performance want an algorithm which will result in minimum number of page faults
9.25
Page Replacement
Prevent over-allocation of memory by modifying page-fault service routine to include page replacement
Use modify (dirty) bit to reduce overhead of page transfers only modified pages are written to disk
Page replacement completes separation between logical memory and physical memory large virtual
memory can be provided on a smaller physical memory
9.26
9.27
2.
3.
Bring the desired page into the (newly) free frame; update the page and frame tables
4.
Continue the process by restarting the instruction that caused the trap
Note now potentially 2 page transfers for page fault increasing EAT
9.28
Page Replacement
9.29
Page-replacement algorithm
Evaluate algorithm by running it on a particular string of memory references (reference string) and
computing the number of page faults on that string
Repeated access to the same page does not cause a page fault
9.30
9.31
4 0 7
2 1 0
15 page faults
3
1
0
3 2 1
Can vary by reference string: consider 1,2,3,4,1,2,5,1,2,3,4,5
Beladys Anomaly
9.32
9.33
9.34
Optimal Algorithm
Replace page that will not be used for longest period of time
9.35
9.36
Replace page that has not been used in the most amount of time
9.37
Counter implementation
Every page entry has a counter; every time page is referenced through this entry, copy the clock into
the counter
When a page needs to be changed, look at the counters to find smallest value
Stack implementation
Page referenced:
LRU and OPT are cases of stack algorithms that dont have Beladys Anomaly
9.38
9.39
Reference bit
Second-chance algorithm
Clock replacement
9.40
9.41
Counting Algorithms
Keep a counter of the number of references that have been made to each page
Not common
MFU Algorithm: based on the argument that the page with the smallest count was probably just brought in
and has yet to be used
9.42
Page-Buffering Algorithms
Read page into free frame and select victim to evict and add to free pool
When backing store otherwise idle, write pages there and set to non-dirty
Possibly, keep free frame contents intact and note what is in them
If referenced again before reused, no need to load contents again from disk
9.43
Operating system can given direct access to the disk, getting out of the way of the applications
9.44
Allocation of Frames
2 pages to handle to
fixed allocation
priority allocation
Many variations
9.45
Fixed Allocation
Equal allocation For example, if there are 100 frames (after allocating frames for the OS) and 5
processes, give each process 20 frames
si = size of process pi
m = 64
s1 = 10
S = si
m = total number of frames
s
ai = allocation for pi = i m
S
9.46
s2 = 127
10
64 5
137
127
64 59
a2 =
137
a1 =
Priority Allocation
select for replacement a frame from a process with lower priority number
9.47
Global replacement process selects a replacement frame from the set of all frames; one process can
take a frame from another
Local replacement each process selects from only its own set of allocated frames
9.48
Consider system boards containing CPUs and memory, interconnected over a system bus
Optimal performance comes from allocating memory close to the CPU on which the thread is scheduled
And modifying the scheduler to schedule the thread on the same system board when possible
When possible schedule all threads of a process and allocate all memory for that process within the
lgroup
9.49
Thrashing
If a process does not have enough pages, the page-fault rate is very high
9.50
Thrashing (Cont.)
9.51
9.52
9.53
Working-Set Model
Approximation of locality
if D > m Thrashing
9.54
Working-set model
9.55
Example: = 10,000
Whenever a timer interrupts copy and sets the values of all reference bits to 0
9.56
Page-Fault Frequency
Establish acceptable page-fault frequency rate and use local replacement policy
9.57
9.58
Memory-Mapped Files
Memory-mapped file I/O allows file I/O to be treated as routine memory access by mapping a disk block to
a page in memory
A page-sized portion of the file is read from the file system into a physical page
Subsequent reads/writes to/from the file are treated as ordinary memory accesses
Simplifies and speeds file access by driving file I/O through memory rather than read() and write()
system calls
Also allows several processes to map the same file allowing the pages in memory to be shared
9.59
Process can explicitly request memory mapping a file via mmap() system call
Memory mapped files can be used for shared memory (although again via separate system calls)
9.60
9.61
9.62
9.63
Buddy System
When smaller allocation needed than is available, current chunk split into two buddies of next-lower
power of 2
One further into CL and CR of 32KB each one used to satisfy request
Disadvantage - fragmentation
9.64
9.65
Slab Allocator
Alternate strategy
If slab is full of used objects, next object allocated from empty slab
9.66
Slab Allocation
9.67
Prepaging
To reduce the large number of page faults that occurs at process startup
Prepage all or some of the pages a process will need, before they are referenced
But if prepaged pages are unused, I/O and memory was wasted
Is cost of s * save pages faults > or < than the cost of prepaging
s * (1- ) unnecessary pages?
near zero prepaging loses
9.68
Fragmentation
Resolution
I/O overhead
Locality
Always power of 2, usually in the range 212 (4,096 bytes) to 222 (4,194,304 bytes)
9.69
This may lead to an increase in fragmentation as not all applications require a large page size
This allows applications that require larger page sizes the opportunity to use them without an
increase in fragmentation
9.70
Program structure
Int[128,128] data;
Program 2
for (i = 0; i < 128; i++)
for (j = 0; j < 128; j++)
data[i,j] = 0;
128 page faults
9.71
Consider I/O - Pages that are used for copying a file from a device must be locked from being selected for
eviction by a page replacement algorithm
9.72
9.73
Windows XP
Solaris
9.74
Windows XP
Uses demand paging with clustering. Clustering brings in pages surrounding the faulting page
Processes are assigned working set minimum and working set maximum
Working set minimum is the minimum number of pages the process is guaranteed to have in memory
When the amount of free memory in the system falls below a threshold, automatic working set trimming
is performed to restore the amount of free memory
Working set trimming removes pages from processes that have pages in excess of their working set
minimum
9.75
Solaris
Scanrate is the rate at which pages are scanned. This ranges from slowscan to fastscan
Pageout is called more frequently depending upon the amount of free memory available
9.76
9.77
End of Chapter 8