Hi Timon,
I had one question eviction of write back.
What happens when a dirty block is evicted from L1 cache. Does it check L2
cache updates the content of that block in L2 and then goes to memory and
update contents in memory ?
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:04 AM Timon Evenblij
wrote:
> Hi
Hi Abishek,
Everything is possible, it all depends on the cache policy. I think the
default behavior in gem5 is a write-back cache, and I am not sure if any
other policies are implemented (Can someone else confirm?). A write-back
cache only writes the data back upon eviction, unlike a
