Appendix B. Memory Hierarchy
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Appendix B. Memory Hierarchy
CSCI/ EENG – 641 - W01Computer Architecture 1
Dr. Babak Beheshti
Slides based on the PowerPoint Presentations created by David Patterson as part of the Instructor Resources for the textbook by Hennessy & Patterson
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Outline• Memory hierarchy• Locality• Cache design• Virtual address spaces• Page table layout• TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffers) design
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Since 1980, CPU has outpaced DRAM...
CPU60% per yr2X in 1.5 yrs
DRAM9% per yr2X in 10 yrs
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DRAM
CPU
Performance(1/latency)
100
1000
1980
2000
1990
Year
Gap grew 50% per year
Q. How do architects address this gap? A. Put smaller, faster “cache”
memories between CPU and DRAM.
Create a “memory hierarchy”.
1977: DRAM faster than microprocessors
Apple ][ (1977)
Steve WozniakSteve
Jobs
CPU: 1000 ns DRAM: 400 ns
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Levels of the Memory Hierarchy
CPU Registers100s Bytes<10s ns
CacheK Bytes10-100 ns1-0.1 cents/bit
Main MemoryM Bytes200ns- 500ns$.0001-.00001 cents /bitDiskG Bytes, 10 ms (10,000,000 ns)
10 - 10 cents/bit-5 -6
CapacityAccess TimeCost
Tapeinfinitesec-min10 -8
Registers
Cache
Memory
Disk
Tape
Instr. Operands
Blocks
Pages
Files
StagingXfer Unit
prog./compiler1-8 bytes
cache cntl8-128 bytes
OS512-4K bytes
user/operatorMbytes
Upper Level
Lower Level
faster
Larger
Memory Hierarchy: Apple iMac G5
iMac G51.6 GHz
07 Reg L1 Inst L1 Data L2 DRAM Disk
Size 1K 64K 32K 512K 256M 80G
LatencyCycles, Time
1,0.6 ns
3,1.9 ns
3,1.9 ns
11,6.9 ns
88,55 ns
107,12 ms
Let programs address a memory space that scales to the disk size, at
a speed that is usually as fast as register access
Managed by compiler
Managed by hardware
Managed by OS,hardware,
application
Goal: Illusion of large, fast, cheap memory
iMac’s PowerPC 970: All caches on-chip
(1K)
Registers 512K
L2
L1 (64K Instruction)
L1 (32K Data)
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Outline• Memory hierarchy• Locality• Cache design• Virtual address spaces• Page table layout• TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffers) design
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The Principle of Locality
• The Principle of Locality:– Program access a relatively small portion of the address space at any instant of time.
• Two Different Types of Locality:– Temporal Locality (Locality in Time): If an item is referenced, it will tend to be referenced
again soon (e.g., loops, reuse)– Spatial Locality (Locality in Space): If an item is referenced, items whose addresses are
close by tend to be referenced soon (e.g., straightline code, array access)
• Last 15 years, HW relied on locality for speed
It is a property of programs which is exploited in machine design.
Programs with locality cache well ...
Donald J. Hatfield, Jeanette Gerald: Program Restructuring for Virtual Memory. IBM Systems Journal 10(3): 168-192 (1971)
Time
Mem
ory
Add
ress
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dot
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SpatialLocality
Temporal Locality
Bad locality behavior
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Outline• Memory hierarchy• Locality• Cache design• Virtual address spaces• Page table layout• TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffers) design
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Memory Hierarchy: Terminology
• Hit: data appears in some block in the upper level (example: Block X) – Hit Rate: the fraction of memory access found in the upper level– Hit Time: Time to access the upper level which consists of
RAM access time + Time to determine hit/miss
• Miss: data needs to be retrieve from a block in the lower level (Block Y)– Miss Rate = 1 - (Hit Rate)– Miss Penalty: Time to replace a block in the upper level +
Time to deliver the block the processor
• Hit Time << Miss Penalty (500 instructions on 21264!)
Lower LevelMemoryUpper Level
MemoryTo Processor
From ProcessorBlk X
Blk Y
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Cache Measures• Hit rate: fraction found in that level
– So high that usually talk about Miss rate
– Miss rate fallacy: as MIPS to CPU performance, miss rate to average memory access time in memory
• Average memory-access time = Hit time + Miss rate x Miss penalty (ns or clocks)
• Miss penalty: time to replace a block from lower level, including time to replace in CPU
– access time: time to lower level = f(latency to lower level)
– transfer time: time to transfer block =f(BW between upper & lower levels)
Cache Performance Review (1/3)• Memory Stall Cycles: the number of cycles during which the processor is
stalled waiting for a memory access. • Rewriting the CPU performance time
• The number of memory stall cycles depends on both the number of misses and the cost per miss, which is called the miss penalty:
timecycleClock cycles) stallMemory cyclesclock (CPUtimeexecution CPU
Penalty Missrate MissInstrution
accessesMemory IC
Penalty MissInstrution
MissesIC
penalty Missmisses ofNumber cycles stallMemory
† The advantage of the last form is the component can be easily measured.
Cache Performance Review (2/3)• Miss penalty depends on
– Prior memory requests or memory refresh;– Different clocks of the processor, bus, and memory;– Thus, using miss penalty be a constant is a simplification.
• Miss rate: the fraction of cache access that result in a miss (i.e., number of accesses that miss divided by number of accesses).
• Extract formula for R/W
Penalty Miss Writerate miss Writeninstructioper WritesIC Penalty Miss Readrate miss Readninstructioper ReadsICcycles stallMemory
penalty Missrate MissnInstructio
accessesMemory ICcycles stallMemory
† Simplify the complete formula by combining the R/W.
Example (1)• Assume we have a computer where the clocks per instruction (CPI) is 1.0 when all memory accesses hit in the cache. The
only data accesses are loads and stores, and these total 50% of the instructions. If the miss penalty is 25 clock cycles and the miss rate is 2%, how much faster would the computer be if all instructions were cache hits?
• Ans:First computer the performance for the computer that always hits:
Now for the computer with the real cache, first we compute memory stall cycles:
The total performance is thus
The performance ratio is the inverse of the execution times:
cycleClock 1.0ICcycleClock 0)CPI(IC timecycleClock cycles) stallMemory cyclesclock (CPUtimeexecution CPU
0.75IC250.020.5)(1IC
penalty Missrate MissInstrution
accessesMemory ICcycles stallMemory
cycleClock IC1.75 timecycleClock cycles) stallMemory cyclesclock (CPUtimeexecution CPU
75.1cycleClock IC1.0cycleClock IC1.75
timeexecution CPUtimeexecution CPU cache
Cache Performance Review (3/3)
• Usually, measuring miss rate as misses per instruction rather than misses per memory reference.
• For example, in the previous example into misses per instruction:
nInstructioaccessesMemoryrate Miss
count nInstructioaccessesMemory rate Miss
InstrutionMisses
† The latter formula is useful when you know the average number of memory accesses per instruction.
030.05.102.0nInstructio
accessesMemoryrate MissInstrution
Misses
Example (2)• To show equivalency between the two miss rate equations, let’s redo the
example above, this time assuming a miss rate per 1000 instructions of 30. What is memory stall time in terms of instruction count?
• AnswerRecomputing the memory stall cycles:
0.75IC
7501000
IC
25301000
IC
penalty Miss1000nInstructio
Misses1000
IC
penalty MissnInstructio
MissesIC
penalty Missmisses ofNumber cycles stallMemory
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4 Questions for Memory Hierarchy
• Q1: Where can a block be placed in the upper level? (Block placement)
• Q2: How is a block found if it is in the upper level? (Block identification)
• Q3: Which block should be replaced on a miss? (Block replacement)
• Q4: What happens on a write? (Write strategy)
Q1: Where Can a Block be Placed in The Upper Level? • Block Placement
– Direct Mapped, Fully Associative, Set Associative• Direct mapped: (Block number) mod (Number of blocks in cache)• Set associative: (Block number) mod (Number of sets in cache)
– # of set # of blocks– n-way: n blocks in a set– 1-way = direct mapped
• Fully associative: # of set = 1
Block-frame address
Block no. 0 1 2 3 54 76 8 129 31
Direct mapped: block 12 can go only into block 4 (12 mod 8)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Block no.
Set associative: block 12 can go anywhere in set 0 (12 mod 4)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Set0
Block no.
Set1 Set2 Set3
Fully associative: block 12 can go anywhere
Block no. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Q1: Where can a block be placed in the upper level?
• Block 12 placed in 8 block cache:– Fully associative, direct mapped, 2-way set associative– S.A. Mapping = Block Number Modulo Number Sets
Cache
01234567 0123456701234567
Memory
111111111122222222223301234567890123456789012345678901
Full Mapped (Associative)
Direct Mapped(12 mod 8) = 4
2-Way Assoc(12 mod 4) = 0
1 KB Direct Mapped Cache, 32B blocks
• For a 2N byte cache– The uppermost (32 - N) bits are always the Cache Tag– The lowest M bits are the Byte Select (Block Size = 2M)
Cache Index
0123
:
Cache DataByte 0
0431
:
Cache Tag Example: 0x50Ex: 0x01
0x50
Stored as partof the cache “state”
Valid Bit
:31
Byte 1Byte 31 :
Byte 32Byte 33Byte 63 :Byte 992Byte 1023 :
Cache Tag
Byte SelectEx: 0x00
9 510
Set Associative Cache• N-way set associative: N entries for each Cache Index
– N direct mapped caches operates in parallel• Example: Two-way set associative cache
– Cache Index selects a “set” from the cache;– The two tags in the set are compared to the input in parallel;– Data is selected based on the tag result.
Cache DataCache Block 0
Cache TagValid
:: :
Cache DataCache Block 0
Cache Tag Valid
: ::
Cache Index
Mux 01Sel1 Sel0
Cache Block
CompareAdr Tag Compare
ORHit
Cache DataCache Block 0
Cache TagValid
:: :
Cache DataCache Block 0
Cache Tag Valid
: ::
Cache DataCache Block 0
Cache Tag Valid
: ::
Cache Index
Mux 01Sel1 Sel0
Cache Block
CompareAdr Tag CompareCompare
ORHit
Disadvantage of Set Associative Cache
• N-way Set Associative Cache versus Direct Mapped Cache:– N comparators vs. 1– Extra MUX delay for the data– Data comes AFTER Hit/Miss decision and set selection
• In a direct mapped cache, Cache Block is available BEFORE Hit/Miss:– Possible to assume a hit and continue. Recover later if miss.
Cache DataCache Block 0
Cache TagValid
:: :
Cache DataCache Block 0
Cache Tag Valid
: ::
Cache Index
Mux 01Sel1 Sel0
Cache Block
CompareAdr Tag Compare
ORHit
Cache DataCache Block 0
Cache TagValid
:: :
Cache DataCache Block 0
Cache Tag Valid
: ::
Cache DataCache Block 0
Cache Tag Valid
: ::
Cache Index
Mux 01Sel1 Sel0
Cache Block
CompareAdr Tag CompareCompare
ORHit
Q2: Block Identification• Tag on each block
– No need to check index or block offset• Increasing associativity shrinks index, expands
tag
BlockOffset
Block Address
IndexTag
Cache size = Associativity × 2index_size × 2offest_size
Set Select Data Select
Fully Assoc.Direct Mapped
Example
Cache Block
Set Way Mem Blocks that can reside in cache block
0 0 0 M0, M1, M2, … M311 0 1 M0, M1, M2, … M312 0 2 M0, M1, M2, … M313 0 3 M0, M1, M2, … M314 0 4 M0, M1, M2, … M315 0 5 M0, M1, M2, … M316 0 6 M0, M1, M2, … M317 0 7 M0, M1, M2, … M31
Example
Q3: Which block should be replaced on a miss?
• Easy for Direct Mapped• Set Associative or Fully Associative
– Random– LRU (Least Recently Used)– First in, first out (FIFO)
Associativity2-way 4-way 8-way
Size LRU Ran. FIFO LRU Ran. FIFO LRU Ran. FIFO16KB 114.1 117.
3115.
5111.7 115.
1113.3 109.
0111.
8110.4
64KB 103.4 104.3
103.9
102.4 102.3
103.1 99.7 100.5
100.3
256KB
92.2 92.1 92.5 92.1 92.1 92.5 92.1 92.1 92.5
Data Cache misses per 1000 instructions
Q3: After a cache read miss, if there are no empty cache blocks, which block should be removed from the cache?
A randomly chosen block?Easy to implement, how
well does it work?
The Least Recently Used (LRU) block? Appealing,but hard to implement for high associativity
Miss Rate for 2-way Set Associative CacheAlso,
tryother
LRUapprox.
Size Random LRU
16 KB 5.7% 5.2%
64 KB 2.0% 1.9%
256 KB 1.17% 1.15%
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Q4: What happens on a write?Write-Through Write-Back
Policy
Data written to cache block
also written to lower-level memory
Write data only to the cache
Update lower level when a block falls out of the
cache
Debug Easy Hard
Do read misses produce writes? No Yes
Do repeated writes make it to lower
level?Yes No
Additional option -- let writes to an un-cached address allocate a new cache line (“write-
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Write Buffers for Write-Through Caches
Q. Why a write buffer ?
ProcessorCache
Write Buffer
Lower Level
Memory
Holds data awaiting write-through to lower level memory
A. So CPU doesn’t stall
Q. Why a buffer, why not just one register ?
A. Bursts of writes arecommon.Q. Are Read After
Write (RAW) hazards an issue for write buffer?
A. Yes! Drain buffer before next read, or send read 1st after check write buffers.
Write Miss Policy• Another factor distinguishing caches is its write policy. • There are two basic options when writing to the cache: write-through
and write-back. • When the information is written to both the block in the cache as well
as the block in the lower-level memory, then the cache is said to be write-through.
• If the information is written only to the block in the cache, the cache is said to be write-back. – Block stay out of the cache in no-write allocate until the program tries to read the
blocks, but with write allocate, even blocks that are only written will still be in the cache.
– The modified cache block is written to main memory only when it is replaced. To reduce the frequency of writing back blocks on replacement, “dirty bit”s are used. It indicates whether the block in cache has been modified or not. If it is clean then there is no need to write it back to the next lower level memory.
Write-Miss Policy Example• Example: Assume a fully associative write-back cache with many cache entries that starts
empty. Below is sequence of five memory operations (The address is in square brackets): Write Mem[100]; Write Mem[100]; Read Mem[200]; Write Mem[200]; Write Mem[100].What are the number of hits and misses (inclusive reads and writes) when using no-write allocate versus write allocate?
• AnswerNo-write Allocate: Write allocate:
Write Mem[100]; 1 write miss Write Mem[100]; 1 write miss Write Mem[100]; 1 write miss Write Mem[100]; 1 write hit Read Mem[200]; 1 read miss Read Mem[200]; 1 read miss Write Mem[200]; 1 write hit Write Mem[200]; 1 write hit Write Mem[100]. 1 write miss Write Mem[100]; 1 write hit 4 misses; 1 hit 2 misses; 3 hits
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5 Basic Cache Optimizations
• Reducing Miss Rate1. Larger Block size (compulsory misses)2. Larger Cache size (capacity misses)3. Higher Associativity (conflict misses)
• Reducing Miss Penalty4. Multilevel Caches
• Reducing hit time5. Giving Reads Priority over Writes
• E.g., Read complete before earlier writes in write buffer
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Outline• Memory hierarchy• Locality• Cache design• Virtual address spaces• Page table layout• TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffers) design
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The Limits of Physical Addressing
CPU MemoryA0-A31 A0-A31
D0-D31 D0-D31
“Physical addresses” of memory locations
Data
All programs share one address space: The physical address space
No way to prevent a program from accessing any machine resource
Machine language programs must beaware of the machine organization
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Solution: Add a Layer of Indirection
CPU Memory
A0-A31 A0-A31
D0-D31 D0-D31
Data
User programs run in an standardizedvirtual address space
Address Translation hardware managed by the operating system (OS)
maps virtual address to physical memory
“Physical Addresses”
AddressTranslation
Virtual Physical
“Virtual Addresses”
Hardware supports “modern” OS features:Protection, Translation, Sharing 39
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Three Advantages of Virtual Memory
• Translation: – Program can be given consistent view of memory, even though physical memory is
scrambled– Makes multithreading reasonable (now used a lot!)– Only the most important part of program (“Working Set”) must be in physical memory.– Contiguous structures (like stacks) use only as much physical memory as necessary yet
still grow later.• Protection:
– Different threads (or processes) protected from each other.– Different pages can be given special behavior
• (Read Only, Invisible to user programs, etc).– Kernel data protected from User programs– Very important for protection from malicious programs
• Sharing:– Can map same physical page to multiple users
(“Shared memory”)
Page tables encode virtual address spaces
A machine usually supports
pages of a few sizes
(MIPS R4000):
A valid page table entry codes physical memory “frame” address for the page
A virtual address spaceis divided into blocks
of memory called pagesPhysical
Address SpaceVirtual
Address Space
frame
frame
frameframe
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Page tables encode virtual address spaces
A machine usually supports
pages of a few sizes
(MIPS R4000):
PhysicalMemory Space
A valid page table entry codes physical memory “frame” address for the page
A virtual address spaceis divided into blocks
of memory called pagesframe
frame
frame
frame
A page table is indexed by a virtual address
virtual address
Page Table
OS manages the page table for each ASID
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Outline• Memory hierarchy• Locality• Cache design• Virtual address spaces• Page table layout• TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffers) design
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PhysicalMemory Space
• Page table maps virtual page numbers to physical frames (“PTE” = Page Table Entry)
• Virtual memory => treat memory cache for disk
Details of Page Table
Virtual Address
Page Table
indexintopagetable
Page TableBase Reg
V AccessRights PA
V page no. offset12
table locatedin physicalmemory
P page no. offset12
Physical Address
frame
frame
frame
frame
virtual address
Page Table
Page tables may not fit in memory!A table for 4KB pages for a 32-bit address
space has 1M entries Each process needs its own address space!
P1 index P2 index Page Offset31 12 11 02122
32 bit virtual address
Top-level table wired in main memory
Subset of 1024 second-level tables in main memory; rest are on disk or
unallocated
Two-level Page Tables
VM and Disk: Page replacement policy
...
Page Table
1 0useddirty
1 00 11 10 0
Set of all pagesin Memory Tail pointer:
Clear the usedbit in thepage table
Head pointerPlace pages on free list if used bitis still clear.Schedule pages with dirty bit set tobe written to disk.
Freelist
Free Pages
Dirty bit: page written.
Used bit: set to
1 on any reference
Architect’s role: support setting dirty and used
bits
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Outline• Memory hierarchy• Locality• Cache design• Virtual address spaces• Page table layout• TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffers) design
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MIPS Address Translation: How does it work?
“Physical Addresses”
CPU MemoryA0-A31 A0-A31
D0-D31 D0-D31
Data
TLB also containsprotection bits for virtual address
Virtual Physical
“Virtual Addresses”
TranslationLook-Aside
Buffer(TLB)
Translation Look-Aside Buffer (TLB)A small fully-associative cache of
mappings from virtual to physical addresses
Fast common case: Virtual address is in TLB,
process has permission to read/write it.
What is the table
ofmappings that it caches?
V=0 pages either reside
on disk or have not yet
been allocated.
OS handles V=0
“Page fault”
Physical and virtual pages
must be the same size!
The TLB caches page table entries
TLB
Page Table
2
0
13
virtual address
page off
2frame page
250
physical address
page off
TLB caches page table
entries.
MIPS handles TLB misses in software
(random replacement). Other machines use
hardware.
for ASID
Physical
frameaddres
s
Can TLB and caching be overlapped?
Index Byte Select
ValidCache Tags Cache Data
Data out
Virtual Page Number Page Offset
TranslationLook-Aside
Buffer(TLB)
Virtual
Physical
=
Hit
Cache Tag
This works, but ...
Q. What is the downside?A. Inflexibility. Size of
cache limited by page size.
Cache Block
Cache Block
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Problems With Overlapped TLB AccessOverlapped access only works as long as the address bits used to index into the cache do not change as the result of VA translationThis usually limits things to small caches, large page sizes, or high n-way set associative caches if you want a large cacheExample: suppose everything the same except that the cache is increased to 8 K bytes instead of 4 K:
11 200
virt page # disp20 12
cache index
This bit is changedby VA translation, butis needed for cachelookup
Solutions: go to 8K byte page sizes; go to 2 way set associative cache; or SW guarantee VA[13]=PA[13]
1K4 4
10 2 way set assoc cache
Use virtual addresses for cache?“Physical
Addresses”
CPU Main Memory
A0-A31 A0-A31
D0-D31 D0-D31
Only use TLB on a cache miss !
TranslationLook-Aside
Buffer(TLB)
Virtual Physical
“Virtual Addresses”
A. Synonym problem. If two address spaces share a physical frame, data may
be in cache twice. Maintaining consistency is a nightmare.
CacheVirtual
D0-D31
Downside: a subtle, fatal problem. What is it?
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Outline• Memory hierarchy• Locality• Cache design• Virtual address spaces• Page table layout• TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffers) design
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Summary #1/3: The Cache Design Space
• Several interacting dimensions– cache size– block size– associativity– replacement policy– write-through vs write-back– write allocation
• The optimal choice is a compromise– depends on access characteristics
• workload• use (I-cache, D-cache, TLB)
– depends on technology / cost• Simplicity often wins
Associativity
Cache Size
Block Size
Bad
GoodLess More
Factor A Factor B
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Summary #2/3: Caches
• The Principle of Locality:– Program access a relatively small portion of the address space at
any instant of time.• Temporal Locality: Locality in Time• Spatial Locality: Locality in Space
• Three Major Categories of Cache Misses:– Compulsory Misses: sad facts of life. Example: cold start misses.– Capacity Misses: increase cache size– Conflict Misses: increase cache size and/or associativity.
Nightmare Scenario: ping pong effect!• Write Policy: Write Through vs. Write Back• Today CPU time is a function of (ops, cache misses) vs. just
f(ops): affects Compilers, Data structures, and Algorithms
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Summary #3/3: TLB, Virtual Memory
• Page tables map virtual address to physical address• TLBs are important for fast translation• TLB misses are significant in processor performance
– funny times, as most systems can’t access all of 2nd level cache without TLB misses!
• Caches, TLBs, Virtual Memory all understood by examining how they deal with 4 questions: 1) Where can block be placed?2) How is block found? 3) What block is replaced on miss? 4) How are writes handled?
• Today VM allows many processes to share single memory without having to swap all processes to disk; today VM protection is more important than memory hierarchy benefits, but computers insecure
• Prepare for debate + quiz on Wednesday