Dynamic cache miss-rate reduction

Abstract

Cache miss rate reduction represents the classical approach to improving cache performance. On method to reduce cache miss rate is higher associativity cache. In this paper we introduce a novel method to enhance cache performance by dynamically choosing the best associativity that can be used to reduce cache miss rate depending on the running program needs. According to our approach cache can be move from direct mapped to 8-way associative online without the need to perform complex address mapping. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media.