Invalidating the L1/L2 lines when you replace an L3 line is an exclusive cache, right? I believe that marss caches are inclusive because as a miss propagates back up to the L1, it inserts the line at each lower level cache along the way ...
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Yingying Tian <[email protected]> wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > In the cache hierarchy in marss inclusive or not? I read the manual of > PTLsim in which it said the cache hierarchy is assumed to be inclusive. > While I read the code of marss and I didn't find any invalidation occured in > L1 and L2 caches when the L3 cache replaced certain cache line. So I want > to make sure if inclusive cache is implemented in marss, or I have to > implement inclusion myself. > > > Thanks, > Yingying > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.marss86.org > Marss86-Devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/marss86-devel > >
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