4. Techniques to limit the impact of caches
4.1 Preloading
One way of limiting the impact of caches on performance is to avoid cache misses by causing the necessary cache lines to be preloaded before executing the instruction that would cause the cache miss. This preloading can be done in hardware or by executing preloading instructions in software.
SCROLL TO TOPLoading instruction or data lines into the respective caches in advance poses a number of problems:
which line should...
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