Advance cache management policies

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The book explores the critical role of cache performance in large-scale systems, highlighting the limitations of existing multilevel cache management policies like LRU-K, PROMOTE, and DEMOTE. It addresses the challenges in optimizing cache utilization and victim selection, particularly in environments with frequent demote and promote operations. As the disparity between CPU and main memory speeds increases, the design of memory subsystems becomes vital. The text emphasizes the importance of effective cache management to ensure efficient memory hierarchy usage, particularly when dealing with limited cache sizes.