Episode 139 - How to Become a Good Backend Engineer (Fundamentals)

Episode 139 - How to Become a Good Backend En...

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Page Tables

Page tables provide the mapping between virtual memory and physical memory for each process. This means it needs to be as efficient and as fast as possible. I explore the inner workings of page tables in this episode.0:00 Intro2:00 Virtual Memory ⁃ ⁃ 8:00 MMU10:00 Page Tables ⁃ ⁃ ...  Show more

CPU and Kernel Page Faults

Page faults occurs when the process tries to access a memory that isn’t backed by a physical page kernel raises a fault which loads a page. It happens on first access, stack expansion, COW, swap and much more. However it comes with a cost. 


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