6.3.1 - Cache Levels
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What is cache memory?
💡 Hint: Think about its role between CPU and main memory.
Name the three levels of cache memory.
💡 Hint: Consider the acronyms and their sizes.
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What level of cache is the fastest?
💡 Hint: Think about which cache is closest to the CPU.
A cache miss occurs when:
💡 Hint: Recall the definition of cache miss.
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Design an experiment that demonstrates cache miss rates for different cache sizes. How would you configure the cache and measure the misses?
💡 Hint: Focus on how increasing the cache size might reduce misses.
Compare the efficiency of LRU and FIFO in a workload with a high number of repeated accesses to a small set of data. Which is likely to perform better and why?
💡 Hint: Think about the nature of the data access patterns.
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