Chapter 6: Joshua Mohundro, Patrick Wong: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
m (herp) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
== Sectored Cache == | == Sectored Cache == | ||
Hard section | |||
== Victim Cache == | == Victim Cache == | ||
The Victim Cache, in architectures with them, stores just-evicted lines from another level of cache. For speed reasons, this cache is usually direct-mapped and has very few entries, but solves one of the pathological cases for direct-mapped caches. | |||
Revision as of 18:26, 30 January 2012
Sectored Cache
Hard section
Victim Cache
The Victim Cache, in architectures with them, stores just-evicted lines from another level of cache. For speed reasons, this cache is usually direct-mapped and has very few entries, but solves one of the pathological cases for direct-mapped caches.