Question: Consider a CPU has a multi-level data cache. If the miss rate for its L1 data cache as 10%, and L2 data cache as 50%.
Consider a CPU has a multi-level data cache. If the miss rate for its L1 data cache as 10%, and L2 data cache as 50%. Suppose that this processor has a CPI of 1 without memory stalls, and the hit time for the instruction cache and the L1 data cache is 1 CPU cycle. For L2 data cache, it is 10 CPU cycles. The miss penalty of the L2 cache, i.e., the access time to main memory, is 200 cycles. Assume that the percentage of memory access instructions is 60% of all the instructions. Please calculate the real CPI with cache misses for this processor.
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