Four Questions for Classification

• Where can a block be placed? Block placement

  • direct mapped, set associative, fully associative

• How is a block found? Block identifcation

  • indexing, set search, separate lookup table

• What block is replaced on a miss? Block replacement

  • LRU, Random, FIFO, MRU

• How are writes handled? Write strategy

  • write through or write back

Summary and Review

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