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Application hints

KARMA [12] is aimed at applications such as databases that can provide hints for placement decisions in all cache levels. Such solutions are application-specific and do not lend themselves to general applicability in multi-level caches. This brings us to DEMOTE, which is the most popular general-purpose collaborative multi-level caching technique.



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