Waiting for Disk Access

Suppose page is on disk (page fault occurs)



• Long access time of 100,000 processor cycles
• Should processor wait (i.e., stall processor in fault handler code)?

Processor

Disk

Pgm1

Fault handler

Disk

access

time

Pgm2

Pgm1

Fault handler

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