Enhanced Approach for Cache Behaviour and Performance Evaluation

Abstract

In previous research on cache replacement policies, have seen that a block usually becomes dead after some uses. By classifying the dead block and discarding them early, there are various policies have been used but still there are number of problems such as cache pollution, high cache miss rate and cache overhead existed which degrades the system performance. In this paper, a new approach for cache replacement policy has introduced which reduces the cache miss rate and cache overhead by using shared L2 level cache. In terms of less miss rate and good hit rate there is need to deploy effective replacement policies. Cache replacement techniques is one of the crucial design parameter that affects the overall processor performance and also become more important with current growing technological moves in the direction of high associative cache . Keywords: Cache pollution; Cache overhead; Cache miss rate; Cache replacement policy (LRU and LFU); Memory overhead;