Machine-Independent Virtual Memory Management for Paged Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Architectures

  • Authors:
  • Richard Rashid;Avadis Tevanin, Jr.;Michael Young;David Golub;Robert Baron

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;-;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsbugh, PA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special issue on architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

The authors describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of the Mach virtual-memory management system. The Mach virtual-memory system exhibits architecture independence, multiprocessor and distributed system support, and advanced functionality. The performance of this virtual-memory system is shown to often exceed that of commercially developed memory management systems targeted at specific hardware architectures.