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Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.
Question 1
Easy
What is a victim cache?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when higher cache data is removed.
Question 2
Easy
What type of cache miss does a victim cache help reduce?
💡 Hint: Consider what conflicts arise in caching systems.
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Interactive Quizzes
Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.
Question 1
What does a victim cache primarily aim to reduce?
- Latency
- Capacity Misses
- Conflict Misses
- None of the above
💡 Hint: Refer back to the definition of conflict misses.
Question 2
True or False: A victim cache is a dedicated space for storing frequent data accesses.
- True
- False
💡 Hint: Think about the role of eviction in caches.
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Challenge Problems
Push your limits with challenges.
Question 1
A CPU architecture has a victim cache that holds 64 entries. How would you design it to optimize the retrieval of evicted data from a direct-mapped cache?
💡 Hint: Think about how the organization affects cache retrieval.
Question 2
In a system experiencing frequent conflict misses, would implementing a victim cache from the start be more effective than resizing the primary cache? Discuss your reasoning.
💡 Hint: Think about the specific issues with conflict misses.
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