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CMake generates configuration files for other build tools based on CMake-specific configuration files. The other tools are responsible for more directly building; using the generated files. A single set of CMake-specific configuration files can be used to build a codebase using the native build tools of multiple platforms. [4]
Cache control instructions are specific to a certain cache line size, which in practice may vary between generations of processors in the same architectural family. Caches may also help coalescing reads and writes from less predictable access patterns (e.g., during texture mapping ), whilst scratchpad DMA requires reworking algorithms for more ...
On Solaris it is possible to control bindings of processes and LWPs to processor using the pbind(1) [14] program. To control the affinity programmatically processor_bind(2) [15] can be used. There are more generic interfaces available such as pset_bind(2) [16] or lgrp_affinity_get(3LGRP) [17] using processor set and locality groups concepts.
The total number of sets in the cache is 1, and the set contains 256/4=64 cache lines, as the cache block is of size 4 bytes. The incoming address to the cache is divided into bits for offset and tag. Offset corresponds to the bits used to determine the byte to be accessed from the cache line. In the example, there are 2 offset bits, which are ...
The basic idea of the multicolumn cache [17] is to use the set index to map to a cache set as a conventional set associative cache does, and to use the added tag bits to index a way in the set. For example, in a 4-way set associative cache, the two bits are used to index way 00, way 01, way 10, and way 11, respectively.
A cache has two primary figures of merit: latency and hit ratio. A number of secondary factors also affect cache performance. [1] The hit ratio of a cache describes how often a searched-for item is found. More efficient replacement policies track more usage information to improve the hit rate for a given cache size.
Cache prefetching can be accomplished either by hardware or by software. [3]Hardware based prefetching is typically accomplished by having a dedicated hardware mechanism in the processor that watches the stream of instructions or data being requested by the executing program, recognizes the next few elements that the program might need based on this stream and prefetches into the processor's ...
However, in the case of the write back policy, the changed cache block will be updated in the lower-level hierarchy only when the cache block is evicted. A "dirty bit" is attached to each cache block and set whenever the cache block is modified. [27] During eviction, blocks with a set dirty bit will be written to the lower-level hierarchy.