Chapter 6, Problem 26RETC

Explanation of Solution

Victim cache:

An associative cache that is used to store the blocks that are thrown out of the CPU based on the conflict that occurred is called as victim cache.

Requirement of the victim cache:

• The victim cache is required by the process to fetch the block that is required in the near future.
• The information is retrieved from the cache with fewer penalties because the information is obtained rather than going into the memory.

Trace cache:

A variant of the instruction cache that stores the instruction that is already being present in the decoded format is called as trace cache...