Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] follow-up on B-13 of HP
Date: Thursday, 08 Oct 2020, 08:25:12

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Just to clarify, this means the 40 bit address would not need to have the
    > set bits (= index bits) in order to find the correct line and/or put the
    > block into the line on a cache miss?

No, a line need not store the index bits (since those
bits are fixed by the location of the line within the
cache), but it must compare them as well as the tag bits
(= block number) when testing whether it contains the
requested block.

--Stan-