原文地址:http://blog.csdn.net/tttt418/article/details/6113860
看好多论文和源码中都有Page Size的概念,我却一直比较模糊,今天特地仔细查了一下。
基本概念
In the context of computer virtual memory, a page, memory page, or virtual page is a fixed-length block of main memory that is contiguous in both physical memory addressing and virtual memory addressing. A page is usually the smallest unit of data for the following:
- memory alloction performed by the operating system for a program; and
- transfer between main memory and any other auxiliary store, such as hard disk drive.
在计算机虚拟内存的概念中,页、内存页或者虚拟页是指内存中的一段固定长度的快,这个内存块在物理地址和虚拟内存地址上都是连续的。一个页通常是以下操作的最小单元:
- 操作系统为程序分配空间;
- 内存和外存传输,比如说硬盘。
下图可以帮助我们更好的理解页的概念: