Miss Rate, Hit Time, Miss Penalty, Miss Rate, Hazards, Bandwidth

Pipelined Caches

increase bandwidth

A larger Page size can allow larger caches with faster ___

Hit times

Larger page sizes increase or decreases process startup time

Increases

Multibanked Caches

Increases bandwidth

Nonblocking caches

Increases bandwidth

(T/F) Memory can be saved by making pages bigger

T

Larger Page size reduces ____ misses

TLB Misses

compiler prefetching

reduce miss penalty or miss rate

hardware prefetching

reduce miss penalty or miss rate

Do smaller pages waste storage or save storage?

save

Which Type(s) of miss does larger cache size decrease?

Capacity

Direct Mapped and Set Associative cache are susceptible to which misses?

Compulsory, Capacity, Conflict

Which Type(s) of miss does higher associativity decrease?

Conflict misses

(T/F)Transferring smaller pages to or from secondary storage is more efficient than transferring Larger pages

F

compiler optimizations

Reduce miss rate

Multilevel Caches

Reduces Miss Penalty

Higher associativity

Reduces Miss Rate

Larger Cache Size

Reduces Miss Rate. Longer hit time. Higher cost and power

Larger Block Size

Reduces Miss Rate. Reduces compulsory misses. Increase miss penalty

Avoiding Address Translation when indexing the cache

Reduces hit time

Small and simple first-level caches

Reduces hit time. Decrease power Consumption

Way Prediction

Reduces hit time. Decrease power consumption

Critical word first

Reduces miss penalty

Giving reads priority over writes

Reduces miss penalty

Merging write buffers

Reduces miss penalty