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Data at Physical Address

The physical address 0x357 was determined by the MMU hardware in the cpu from the virtual address since there was a hit in the TLB for the page table entry.

Now a lookup in the L1 cache would check to see if the contents of the physical address are available (a hit in the L1 cache).

Summary:

If a cache miss occurs in either case, memory must be accessed. (In this case the corresponding cache is updated.)



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