Multi-Core Cache Hierarchies
Balasubramonian, Rajeev / Muralimanohar, Naveen / Jouppi, Norman P.
A key determinant of overall system performance and power dissipation is the cache hierarchy since access to off-chip memory consumes many more cycles and energy than on-chip accesses. In addition, multi-core processors are expected to place ever higher bandwidth demands on the memory system. All these issues make it important to avoid off-chip memory access by improving the efficiency of the on-chip cache. Future multi-core processors will ha...