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Notes...

• Q: how would miss-rate vary with block size?
• Q: how might miss penalty for large blocks be reduced?
• Q: what happens with a large block size, when a write miss occurs?
• Q: Should the tag be the virtual address or the physical address?
• Q: Should the second-level cache always contain everything held in the first-level cache (the ``multi-level inclusion'' property)
• Q: How could one restructure a program to get better performance with a small cache?
• Q: What kind of program would have a very high rate of conflict misses with a two-way set-associative cache?