Consider a system that has a cache memory unit and a memory management unit…

GATE · 2026 · CS · Set 1 · Computer Science & IT

Consider a system that has a cache memory unit and a memory management unit (MMU). The address input to the cache memory is a physical address. The MMU has a translation lookaside buffer (TLB). Assume that when a page is evicted from the main memory, the corresponding blocks in the cache are marked as invalid.

For a given memory reference, which of the following sequences of events can NEVER happen?

  1. A.

    TLB miss, Page table hit, Cache hit

  2. B.

    TLB hit, Page table miss, Cache hit

  3. C.

    TLB miss, Page table miss, Cache hit

  4. D.

    TLB miss, Page table miss, Cache miss

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