Question

Why in miss time prvious cache access time not considered?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Cache is a random access memory used by the CPU to reduce the average time taken to access memory.

Multilevel Caches is one of the techniques to improve Cache Performance by reducing the “MISS PENALTY”. Miss Penalty refers to the extra time required to bring the data into cache from the Main memory whenever there is a “miss” in cache .

For clear understanding let us consider an example where CPU requires 10 Memory References for accessing the desired information and consider this scenario in the following 3 cases of System design :