Question

Assume that the OS uses a minimum page size of 16 KB. Assume that your L1 cache must be 4-way set-associative. If you're trying to correctly implement a virtually indexed physically tagged cache (with no additional support from the OS or hardware), what is the largest L1 cache that you can design

Answer 1

The largest size of L1 = 16 bits

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assuming that the OS uses a minimum page size of 16 KB

when we assume that our L1 cache must have 4-way set-associative

The largest L1 cache that you can design = 16 bits ( when the L1 cache is of a page size )

The L1 cache is closest to the processor and also the L1 is slowest and the largest of all