Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Midterm Review

open book, open note, no devices

1. buzz words : spacial, temporal locality;
    memory hierarchy : cpu (has registers in it) --> L1 cache-->L2 cache --> DRAM
    all ^ have own physically addressed space
    off to side, some harddrive
    gets slower but bigger as we go down
    spacial - will move whole 512 block data - move in blocks
    temporal - leave in memory thinking we will access again soon.
2. buzz words: multiple queues
    there's always something being done
    concurrency
    if more than one request for one resource, kernel can optimize
    pg 103 dinosaur book
    w/premptive, timer goes off
decide which schedulers are preemptive
shorted job first
red-robin
mlevel feedback queue
 user level threads work...how
    can manage them anyway you want
    for portability
   
    won't have to stay in waiting to a
    anytime you have interrupts,  you have conccurrenciy ->  have race conditions ....??
    consider 1. Load,  2.Inc, 3.store.

    Producer  onsumer
    interrupt handler
    puts in buffer, returns,
    buffer interrupted/changed  mid -read

   how might you get extra bytes?
    if interrupt is interrupted by another one, waiting
//   race conditions can  have many levels of ...

     mutex, semaphore, critical section

3.  how do we know it's not a deadlock that's crashing?  (look at deadlock chapter... need all for conditions for deadlock) priority inversion, priority inheritance

4.

5. 4 kb --> not to big/small,
    buzz word: fragmentation, spacial locality,
    if we can bring in whole 4kb page, fewer page faults
    external fragmentation-

segmentation = > have physical memory, using chunks all over. Need more memory, but don't have large enough contiguous (continuous) memory. this is why we do paging.

virtual addressing
10 10 12
            ^ sorta naturally becomes address for 4kb page : 2^12 = 4098
           (nice num to work with)


//"northbridge"... connects DRAM

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