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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is a victim cache?

πŸ’‘ 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?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what conflicts arise in caching systems.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What does a victim cache primarily aim to reduce?

  • Latency
  • Capacity Misses
  • Conflict Misses
  • None of the above

πŸ’‘ 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

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the role of eviction in caches.

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Challenge Problems

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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?

πŸ’‘ 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.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the specific issues with conflict misses.

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