在讲到为什么要用多级分页时,有这么一句话
The aim of this two-level scheme is to reduce the amount of ram required for per-process Page Tables. If a simple one-level Page Table was used, then is would require up to 220 entries(i.e., at 4 bytes per entry, 4M of RAM) to represent the Page Table for each process(if the process used a full 4 GB linear address space), even though a process does not use all addresses in that range.