Major Hurdle of Pipelining Quiz PDF: Questions and Answers - 47

MCQ 231: If the entries no is a power of 2 in the cache, then modulo will be computed by using the

1. low-order (log)₂
2. high-order (log)₂
3. low-order (log)₁₀
4. high-order (log)₁₀

MCQ 232: The primary challenge for every multiple-issue processors is trying to exploiting a large amount of

1. IP
2. FLP
3. FP
4. ILP

MCQ 233: Control hazards can cause a greater performance loss for MIPS pipeline than do

1. stall
2. data hazard
3. structural hazard
4. branch hazard

MCQ 234: An I/O system with a single disk gets on average 50 I/O requests per second and the average time for a disk to service an I/O request is 10 ms, the utilization of the I/O system would be

1. 0.2
2. 0.5
3. 0.75
4. 1.5

MCQ 235: The alternative way of a snooping-based coherence protocol is called a

1. memory protocol
2. directory protocol
3. register protocol
4. none of above