Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 4 Gbytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 256 blocks, where each cache block contains 32 bytes. a) How many blocks of main memory are there? b) What is the format of a memory address? Provide the names and the sizes of the fields. c) To which cache block will the memory address 0x01752 map?

Suppose a computer using fully associative cache has 4 Gbytes of byte-addressable main memory and a cache of 256 blocks, where each cache block contains 32 bytes. a) How many blocks of main memory are there? b) What is the format of a memory address? Provide the names and the sizes of the fields. c) To which cache block will the memory address 0x01752 map?

Systems Architecture

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Chapter11: Operating Systems

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