IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
Print ISSN : 0916-8524
Special Section on Low-Power and High-Speed Chips
FLEXII: A Flexible Insertion Policy for Dynamic Cache Resizing Mechanisms
Masayuki SATORyusuke EGAWAHiroyuki TAKIZAWAHiroaki KOBAYASHI
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2015 Volume E98.C Issue 7 Pages 550-558

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As energy consumption of cache memories increases, an energy-efficient cache management mechanism is required. While a dynamic cache resizing mechanism is one promising approach to the energy reduction of microprocessors, one problem is that its effect is limited by the existence of dead-on-fill blocks, which are not used until their evictions from the cache memory. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a cache management policy named FLEXII, which can reduce the number of dead-on-fill blocks and help dynamic cache resizing mechanisms further reduce the energy consumption of the cache memories.

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