TLB, Sources of Misses and Virtual Machine

Interrupt driven IO vs. DMA, IO System Design and Disk Dependability

第六章 Storage and Other I/O Topics I/O system, Dependability Measures, Disk and Bus

Measuring IO performance and RAID

Cache Coherence and Memory Consistency

Virtual Memory and Page Table

第五章 Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy Dynamic Scheduling and Locality

Cache Performance, Associativity and Multilevel Cache

Direct Mapping, Cache Size and Block Size

Exception and Static Dual Issue

Control Unit and Pipeline

Static Dual Issue and Loop Unrolling

Branch Hazard and Dynamic Branch Prediction

Pipelined Control, Forwarding and Load-Use Hazard

Addressing Mode

第三章 Arithmetic for Computers ALU, Multiplier and Carry Look-Ahead

第四章 The Processor CPU and Instruction Type

Divider and Floating Point

Branch Prediction and Pipelined Datapath

Hazards