cache model of ppc

[Scott Wood]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:30:21PM +0200, Felix Schmidt wrote:
> I some questions about the PowerPC cache model.
> 
> How many caches are there?
> How many caches are in multi-core systems? do you have a L1 cache per
> cpu and one shared L2? or is there a victim L3 cache?
> 
> can you tell me something about the path through the cache?
> for example I look up for data in L1, but this was a miss. Then i look
> up in L2 this was also a miss. but the date will be in another L1
> cache of another cpu. Is there a 1.5 or 2.5 hit?

This is all dependent on the particular CPU you're talking about, and
should be described in its manual.

-Scott