On Sep 22, 2008, at 7:45 AM, nathan binkert wrote:

>> Given a physical address of a word i want to find out the complete
>> cache-line. Meaning i want to find out the lowest address and highest
>> address of the word which is mapped to that cache line.
>> Now one easiest apporach is to just find out the nearest multiples of
>> 64byte(cache line size) above and below that address.. Will that be
>> sufficient and correct all the time?
>
> Yes.  Cache lines are always aligned to 64 bytes.  You  can simply
> mask off the low 6 bits of the address to determine the lowest address
> of a line.
By default the cache line size is 64 bytes, but it is configurable.

Ali

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