Practice Victim Caches (7.8) - Caches

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Question 1.
What is a victim cache?
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Think about what happens when higher cache data is removed.
Question 2.
What type of cache miss does a victim cache help reduce?
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Consider what conflicts arise in caching systems.
3Question 3.
What does a victim cache primarily aim to reduce?
- Latency
- Capacity Misses
- Conflict Misses
- None of the above
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Refer back to the definition of conflict misses.
4Question 4.
True or False: A victim cache is a dedicated space for storing frequent data accesses.
- True
- False
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Think about the role of eviction in caches.
Question 5.
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?
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Think about how the organization affects cache retrieval.
Question 6.
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.
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Think about the specific issues with conflict misses.

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