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The RRIP backend makes the eviction decisions. The sampled cache and OPT generator set the initial RRPV value of the inserted cache lines. Hawkeye won the CRC2 cache championship in 2017, [24] and Harmony [25] is an extension of Hawkeye which improves prefetching performance. Block diagram of the Mockingjay cache replacement policy
Cache placement policies are policies that determine where a particular memory block can be placed when it goes into a CPU cache. A block of memory cannot necessarily be placed at an arbitrary location in the cache; it may be restricted to a particular cache line or a set of cache lines [1] by the cache's placement policy. [2] [3]
The placement policy decides where in the cache a copy of a particular entry of main memory will go. If the placement policy is free to choose any entry in the cache to hold the copy, the cache is called fully associative. At the other extreme, if each entry in the main memory can go in just one place in the cache, the cache is direct-mapped.
Pseudo-LRU or PLRU is a family of cache algorithms which improve on the performance of the Least Recently Used (LRU) algorithm by replacing values using approximate measures of age rather than maintaining the exact age of every value in the cache. PLRU usually refers to two cache replacement algorithms: tree-PLRU and bit-PLRU.
Processor-side requests or CPU requests are the accesses that the processor makes to its own caches. These may be classified into 4 types of requests namely: PrRdMiss: Processor side request to read a cache block that does not reside in the cache. PrRdHit: Processor side request to read a cache block that already resides in the cache.
Consider the following illustration: T[0] = T[0] + 1; for i in 0..sizeof(CACHE) C[i] = C[i] + 1; T[0] = T[0] + C[sizeof(CACHE)-1]; (The assumptions here are that the cache is composed of only one level, it is unlocked, the replacement policy is pseudo-LRU, all data is cacheable, the set associativity of the cache is N (where N > 1), and at most one processor register is available to contain ...
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 ...
In February 2023 a vulnerability affecting a wide range of AMD CPU architectures called "Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions" was disclosed. [56] [57] [58] In July 2023 a critical vulnerability in the Zen 2 AMD microarchitecture called Zenbleed was made public. [59] AMD released a microcode update to fix it. [60]