A fellow student has designed a cache with the most significant bits containing the index and the least significant bits containing the tag. How well do you suppose this cache will perform?
What will be an ideal response?
The cache the student has designed will not perform effectively. Caches must be set up in such a way as to take advantage of spatial locality. Most programs run in such a way that the currently executed instructions are almost always next to each other in memory. This means that their high-order address bits are usually identical. Because this is the case, it is not wise to use them as an index, since each write to the cache would trigger an eviction on the same row.
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