calculate the effective access time

Question

This is a paragraph from Operating System Concepts, 9th edition by Silberschatz et al:

The percentage of times that the page number of interest is found in the TLB is called the hit ratio. An 80-percent hit ratio, for example, means that we find the desired page number in the TLB 80 percent of the time. If it takes 100 nanoseconds to access memory, then a mapped-memory access takes 100 nanoseconds when the page number is in the TLB. If we fail to find the page number in the TLB then we must first access memory for the page table and frame number (100 nanoseconds) and then access the desired byte in memory (100 nanoseconds), for a total of 200 nanoseconds. (We are assuming that a page-table lookup takes only one memory access, but it can take more, as we shall see.) To find the effective memory-access time, we weight the case by its probability: effective access time = 0.80 × 100 + 0.20 × 200 = 120 nanoseconds

but in the 8th edition of the same book

I'm confused with the

effective access time

Can someone explain it for me?

Answer 1

The effective time here is just the average time using the relative probabilities of a hit or a miss. So if a hit happens 80% of the time and a miss happens 20% of the time then the effective time (i.e. average time) over a large number of hits/misses will be 0.8 * (hit time) + 0.2 * (miss time).

Answer 2

Average Access Time is hit time+miss rate*miss time, disagree with @Paul R's answer

Answer 3

General Formula for EAT

Hit ratio = a

Main Memory access time = m

Associative Lookup (TLB access) = e

EAT = (m + e) a + (2m + e) (1 - a)

    = 2m - ma + e

Answer 4

In the case that the page is found in the TLB (TLB hit) the total time would be the time of search in the TLB plus the time to access memory, so

TLB_hit_time := TLB_search_time + memory_access_time

In the case that the page is not found in the TLB (TLB miss) the total time would be the time to search the TLB (you don't find anything, but searched nontheless) plus the time to access memory to get the page table and frame, plus the time to access memory to get the data, so

TLB_miss_time := TLB_search_time + memory_access_time + memory_access_time

But this is in individual cases, when you want to know an average measure of the TLB performance, you use the Effective Access Time, that is the weighted average of the previous measures

EAT := TLB_miss_time * (1- hit_ratio) + TLB_hit_time * hit_ratio

or

EAT := (TLB_search_time + 2*memory_access_time) * (1- hit_ratio) +
       (TLB_search_time + memory_access_time) * hit_ratio

Answer 5

Effective acess time Is total time spent in accessing memory( ie summation of main memory and cache acess time) divided by total number of memory references.

Answer 6

In TLB a copy of frequently accessed page number and frame no is maintained which is from the page table stored into memory.

It first looks into TLB. If found, it goes to the memory location so the total access time is equals to:

20 + 100 = 120 ns

Now if TLB is missing then you need to first search for TLB, then for the page table which is stored into memory. So one memory access plus one particular page acces, nothing but another memory access. So the total time is equals to:

20 + 100 + 100 = 220 ns

And effective memory access time is equals to:

0.80 * 120 + 0.20* 220 = 140 ns