Re: [Gems-users] cache size calculation

[Abdullah Kayi <apokayi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shoaib Altaf wrote:
>  
> Hi,
>  
> Are there any other parameters to be specified while designing the 
> size of a cache other then the following
>  
> LI_CACHE_ASSOC: 4
> L1_CACHE_NUM_SETS_BITS :8
>  
> How these configurations make the size of the L1 cache to  be 64 KB in 
> the statistics below.
>  
It should be something like this:

2^8 = 256 is the # of sets

Cache Size = (# of sets) * (# of blocks / set) * (# of bytes / block)
Cache Size = 256 * 4 (cache associativity) * 64 (or cache line size) = 64 KB

~ AK
> num_cache_set: 256
> cache_size_Kbytes: 64
>
> Muhammad Shoaib
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