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By Steven Przybylski
Description
An authoritative book for hardware and software designers. Caches are by far the simplest and most effective mechanism for improving
computer performance. This innovative book exposes the characteristics of performance-optimal single and multi-level cache hierarchies
by approaching the cache design process through the novel perspective of minimizing execution times. It presents useful data on the relative
performance of a wide spectrum of machines and offers empirical and analytical evaluations of the underlying phenomena. This book will
help computer professionals appreciate the impact of caches and enable designers to maximize performance given particular implementation
constraints.
Contents
Cache and Memoty Hierarchy Design: A Performance-Directed Approach by Steven A. Przybylski
Preface
Symbols
1. Introduction
2. Background Material
2.1. Terminology
2.2. Previous
Cache Studies
2.3. Analytical Modelling
2.4. Temporal Analysis in Cache Design
2.5. Multi-Level Cache Hierarchies
3. The Cache Design Problem and Its Solution
3.1. Problem Description
3.2. Two Complementary
Approaches
3.3. Experimental Method
3.3.1. The Simulator and Related Infrastructure
3.3.2. The System Models
3.3.3. The Input Traces
3.3.4. Observations, Lessons and Summary
3.4. Analytical Approach
4. Performance-Directed Cache Design
4.1. Speed - Size Tradeoffs
4.2. Speed - Set Size Tradeoffs
4.3. Block Size - Memory Speed Tradeoffs
4.3.1. Optimal Block Size with Cycle Time Degradation
4.3.2. Independent
Block and Fetch Sizes
4.3.3. Optimal Block Size with Alternate Fetch Strategies
4.4. Globally Optimum Cache
Design
5. Multi-Level Cache Hierarchies
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Motivation
5.3. Intermediate Cache Design
5.3.1. Decomposition of the Hierarchy
5.3.2. Speed - Size Tradeoffs
5.3.3.
Set Size Tradeoffs
5.3.4. Block Size and Fetch Size Tradeoffs
5.3.5. Summary
5.4. Optimal Memory
Hierarchy Design
5.5. A Detailed Example
5.6. Fundamental Limits to Performance
5.7. Summary
6. Summary, Implications and Conclusions
6.1. Summary
6.2. The Implications of Performance-Directed
Cache Design
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