I do not understand the difference between page table and inverted page table. I know that both are used to translate the logical addresses into physical addresses produced by the processes necessary to store data in memory.
This is what I know on the page table.
Generally each page table contains an element for each virtual page and a table exists for each process. This can lead to huge tables (programs with many pages).
I can imagine a page table like this:
Instead, this is what I know on the inverted page table.
It has only one page table for all processes. This table has an entry for each real page (block of physical memory). Each element contains the virtual address of the page stored in that physical location, with information about the process that owns that page.
So I represent the inverted page table like this:
Am I doing it right? Did I get it right?
Thank you
I don't understand if the information I have learned theoretically then I understood well.
I do not think that is more efficient an interved page table than a normal page table, indeed I find it most confusing.
As I understand it, each frame of the physical memory has a corresponding entry in the inverted page table. I suppose that the memory has a large number of frames, then the inverted page table is huge and how do I keep it in RAM? While if you use the page tables "normal", I do not keep all of them in memory at the same time, you just keep those of the currently active processes, or not?
And it is reversed (the arrows are reversed), as I map a logical address into a physical?