Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[pgerassi]

Chipguy:

Many of those studies are of the older eras. Current interrupt driven OSes and heavy multitasking show that 8 way SA caches with the current methods of address bit swapping get overwhelmed. They also take into account that the more ways have higher latencies, which a good FA design does not have. So there are three assumptions that current systems invalidate, which invalidate the studies I have seen against FA caches. If you have links to those studies that you claim show over 8 way are not needed, post them.

Pete