Tony Harminc writes: >One of the cache attributes that can be extracted is the >"set-associativity level of the cache". On my zPDT this is 4 >(for the one and only combined cache, which is pretty much >virtual in any case). On a z12BC it is 6 (for the 1st level >data cache). But what does this number *mean*? The phrase >set-associativity does not occur elsewhere in the POO.
There's a Wikipedia page on "cache placement policies" which has a lot of information about this subject, and I think it explains that concept. Jonathan Scott
