> For example, for bzip2 the unified L2 miss rate error is only 0.2%, but > for the same benchmark the L1 dcache miss rate error is almost 50%. gap > has a dcache miss rate error of only 3%, while its L2 error is 25%. And > this story continues for many of the other benchmarks
Which miss rate are you looking at? overall_misses or overall_mshr_misses? The former is all misses in the cache, but the latter is only unique misses (i.e. if two misses end up sharing an mshr, only one is counted.) Maybe one of the cache experts has a better hypothesis. Nathan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ m5sim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/m5sim-users
