Figure 2. A generalized miss ratio curve for an application. The minimum, i.e. only the private cache, and the maximum, i.e. the private cache and the full shared cache, amount of cache available to an application are shown on the x-axis. The miss ratio when running in isolation (rs) is the smallest miss ratio that an application can achieve on this system, while the miss ratio when running only in the private cache (rp) is the worst miss ratio. The δ represents how much an application is affected by competition for the shared cache.
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