Q. Caches containing either instructions or data, is referred to the term

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Q. Hardware solutions for the synonym problems, are called

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Q. Fixed-size blocks known as pages, and those having variable-size blocks are known as

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Q. If the entry is 8 bytes long, each page table has 512 entries, and the Opteron has 4 KB pages. Each of the four level fields are 9 bits long, and the page offset is 12 bits, then the sign extended would be

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Q. If going fully associative, refers to the

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Q. The natural policy uses for the memory hierarchies: L1 data of cache are always present in L2 level of cache, refers to

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Q. For reducing the chance of throwing the information which soon will be needed, this technique used is

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Q. The ratio of cache accesses, results in a miss is known as

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Q. AMD64 requires that the upper 16 bits of the virtual address be just the sign extension of the lower 48 bits, which it calls

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Q. Larger cache-size, larger block-size, and higher associativity, refers to the

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Q. A small page size will result in less wasted storage when a contiguous region of virtualmemory is not equal in size to a multiple of the page size, this unused memory is known as

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Q. To help the operating system estimate LRU, many processors provide a

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Q. The policy for memory hierarchies: L1 data are never found in an L2 cache, refers to

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Q. The 64-bit virtual address of the AMD64 architecture is mapped onto

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Q. A better measurement of performance of memory-hierarchy is the

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Q. When the computer processor does not get a data item it requires in the cache, then the problem is known as

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Q. To restrict entry into others

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Q. Significant percentage of the spent time in moving data in two levels in the memory hierarchy, then the memory-hierarchy is said to

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Q. The cache term is now applied when a buffering is employed for reusing commonly occurring items, for example

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Q. If each block having one place to be appear in the cache, this cache is said to be

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