On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:44:25AM +0000, karthikeyan natarajan wrote: > I would like learn about L1, L2 & L3 caches w.r.t > MIPS, in detail. Could you pls give me a pointer to > the document available on the Net... This information is horribly scattered over lots of resources. A well written and fun to read book is "See MIPS Run" by Dominik Sweetman; see also the literature section of www.linux-mips.com. The Hennesey & Patterson books looks at caches from a more theoretical perspective but provides the necessary background. Ralf
