CMP Caches I

This lecture covers CMP cache basics, shared caches, private caches, and hybrid caches. It delves into the implementation of MIT's Large Transactional Memory, discussing the support for transactions of arbitrary size and duration. The lecture also explores the concept of multiple in-flight transactions, focusing on the rename table, saved set, and original transactions. Additionally, it explains the cache overflow mechanism, detailing the overflow hashtable, cache overflow mechanism, and conflict misses. The presentation concludes with discussions on victim replication, internals of large caches, and adaptive selective replication.