Cache associativity
Tag: cache-associativity
Aliases: set associativity, associativity
The number of ways in each cache set: how many different blocks may map to the same set. Direct-mapped = 1, fully associative = N.
Lecture references
- L11 · Advanced Branch Prediction — p.8
- L12 · Caches — p.14 , p.24 , p.27 , p.28 , p.31 , p.32
- L13 · Advanced Caches — p.7 , p.22
- L14 · Prefetching — p.5 , p.44
- L15 · Virtual Memory — p.6 , p.30