School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of New South Wales
Advanced Operating Systems
COMP9242 2002/S2
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- Medium speed:
- lookup in parallel with address translation
- tag comparison after address translation
- No homonym problem
- Potential synonym problem
- More bits per tag (cannot leave off set-number bits)
- increases area, latency, power consumption
- Used on most modern architectures for L1 cache
Gernot Heiser
2002-08-15