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 _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
