The performance of pollution control victim cache for embedded systems
In this paper we explore the design space of data caches looking for the combinations of design parameters that produce the best results at the smallest sizes. We introduce a technique named Pollution Control Victim Cache (PCVC) which improves the Pollution Control Cache (PCC), is simpler and performs better. Our simulations were run on the SimpleScalar suite running the Commbench benchmarks. Our results indicate that Victim Caches and Stream Buffers do not perform well in the small systems we simulated. The PCC and our PCVC have shown promising results.