Virtual Memory Systems Should Use Larger Pages rather than the Traditional 4KB Pages
Pinchas Weisberg, Yair Wiseman · International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology · 2015
Choosing the best page size for Virtual Memory requires considering several factors. A smaller page size reduces the amount of internal fragmentation. On the other hand, a larger page needs smaller page tables. However, this paper argues that the main reason to prefer a larger page is to increase the virtual to physical translation speed i.e. because the size of a TLB is limited, to facilitate increasing of TLB coverage we have to use larger pages