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Consider a $4$-way set associative cache (initially empty) with total $16$ cache blocks. The main memory consists of $256$ blocks and the request for memory blocks are in the following order:

$0, 255, 1, 4, 3, 8, 133, 159, 216, 129, 63, 8, 48, 32, 73, 92, 155.$

Which one of the following memory block will NOT be in cache if LRU replacement policy is used?

1. $3$
2. $8$
3. $129$
4. $216$
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can't understand the solution by Kathleen.How last 4  cache acesses stored?

$16$ blocks and sets with $4$ blocks each means there are $4$ sets.So, the lower $2$ bits are used
for getting a set and $4$-way associative means in a set only the last $4$ cache accesses can be stored.

$\text{0, 255, 1, 4, 3, 8, 133, 159, 216, 129, 63, 8, 48, 32, 73, 92, 155}$

mod $4$ gives,

$\text{0, 3, 1, 0, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 3}$

Now for each of $0..3,$ the last $4$ accesses will be in cache.
So, $\text{{92, 32, 48, 8}, {155, 63, 159, 3}, {73, 129, 133, 1} and {}}$ will be in cache.
So, the missing element from choice is $216.$
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Good approach.
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We are using LRU replacement and "8" came twice so when 92 will arrive it replace 216 not "8" this way......216 will be missing from cache

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