Accepted for publication in Microprocessors and Microsystems. (1998)
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@MISC{Ms98acceptedfor,
author = {Te Ms},
title = {Accepted for publication in Microprocessors and Microsystems.},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
This paper focuses on another source of non-conventional cache misses that occur during page clearing in a virtual memory system. In a virtual memory system, when a physical page is remapped to a new virtual page, the previous contents of the physical page must be cleared by overwriting the whole page with zeros for security reasons. This results in back-to-back write accesses to all the blocks in the page. These back-to-back write accesses not only cause cache misses for blocks not in the cache, but also pollute the cache with blocks that are not immediately needed. The results given in published literature
