An Application FrameWork for Modelling Cache Based Virtual Memory Systems

There is a paucity of software tools available for the simulation of cache systems. Dinero III [Hill 1992], written in C, is the only one known to the authors to be accessible to the research community. This tool simulates simple data and instruction cache organizations and is not applicable to the more complex modern-day cache systems that are appearing in the literature and in industry. In this paper, we propose an application framework to provide a set of services for the simulation of caching systems. We constructed a simulator for a complex caching system using this application framework in a very short timeframe. 1. Introduction This paper proposes an application framework for use in the simulation of caching systems. We restrict attention to primary memory caches; disk caches are not considered here. Our attention turned to this problem domain when we sought to do an evaluation of three virtual memory caching systems proposals for memory access control (HP PA-RISC Protection sy..