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- Fastest (don't rely on TLB for retrieving data)
- however, needs TLB for protection
- or other mechanism to provide protection
- Suffer from synonyms and homonyms
- requires flushing on context switch
- makes context switches expensive
- may even be required on kerneluser switch
- ... or guarantee of no synonyms and homonyms
- Require TLB lookup for write-back!
- Used on MC68040, i860
Gernot Heiser
2002-08-15
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