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architecture> An extension to a
direct mapped cache that
adds a small, secondary,
fully associative cache to store
cache blocks that have been ejected from the main
cache due to
a capacity or conflict miss. These ejected blocks are likely
to be needed again so storing them in the secondary
cache
should increase performance.
Victim caches with as few as five places have been found to
reduce conflict misses, especially for small, direct-mapped
data caches. E.g. a four-place
victim cache removed 20% to
95% (depending on program) of such misses in a 4-KB
cache.
http://www.scism.sbu.ac.uk/ccsv/josephmb/CS-L2-MT/week12.html.
(2007-02-23)