hey one more thing, for prefetching case, there is no function which tells this prefetched address mapped to this block or block within set? any idea about this?
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:46 PM, biswabandan panda <[email protected]>wrote: > yeah i got that when i thought it carefully, anyways thanks for your help > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Nilay Vaish <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, biswabandan panda wrote: >> >> no i think its not possible also. If the block is not there in the cache >>> how >>> you will find the address? >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Nilay Vaish <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, biswabandan panda wrote: >>>> >>>> initially by using findBlock it gets the block and then invalidated all >>>> >>>>> the >>>>> blocks, my point is when a cpu requests, it will check the tag and >>>>> valid >>>>> bits for hit else its a miss. yeah it's not possible in set associative >>>>> caches but what about direct mapped? >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Nilay Vaish <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I think, I don't understand what you are trying to do. Anyways, in a >>>> direct >>>> mapped cache, since there is only one block per set, you can always add >>>> a >>>> function that returns you that one block. >>>> >>>> >> The address being accessed can give you the set. That set has only one >> block (since it is direct mapped cache), so we do not need the actual >> address of the block stored in the cache. >> >> >> -- >> Nilay >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> > > > > -- > > *thanks®ards > * > *BISWABANDAN PANDA* > *M.S.(RESEARCH SCHOLAR)* > *RISE LAB* > *IIT MADRAS* > > http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~biswa/ <http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/%7Ebiswa/> > > > -- *thanks®ards * *BISWABANDAN PANDA* *M.S.(RESEARCH SCHOLAR)* *RISE LAB* *IIT MADRAS* http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~biswa/ <http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/%7Ebiswa/>
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