DocumentCode
2825063
Title
A method to estimate locality in the output of a cache level
Author
Alakarhu, Juha ; Niittylahti, Jarkko
Author_Institution
Inst. of Digital & Comput. Syst., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland
Volume
3
fYear
2003
fDate
27-30 Dec. 2003
Firstpage
1439
Abstract
This paper proposes a method to estimate the temporal locality in the output of a cache based on the input locality, cache size, and degree of associativity. The method is evaluated by calculating the L2 cache hit rates based on the estimated model of locality. The results show a typical absolute error of few percents. The method alleviates memory hierarchy evaluation without running exhaustive simulations at all levels.
Keywords
cache storage; content-addressable storage; associativity; cache hit rates; cache level output; cache size; input locality; memory hierarchy evaluation; temporal locality; Design methodology; Equations; Filtering; Filters; Jacobian matrices; Random access memory; Tin;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Circuits and Systems, 2003 IEEE 46th Midwest Symposium on
ISSN
1548-3746
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8294-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MWSCAS.2003.1562566
Filename
1562566
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