Latency represents delay to access the cache line. So its more like relative
to previous level cache because total cache access delay adds up depending
on how much lower in memory hierarchy you have to go.

- Avadh

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Mu-Tien Chang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Avadh,
>
> I'd like to confirm what cache latency (LATENCY in config files)
> represents. Is it relative to the core or to the previous level of cache? I
> looked at the code and I think its relative to the core (based on
> add_event() in memoryHierarchy.cpp) but I'm not sure. Thanks in advance.
>
> Mu-Tien
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