When the amount of data requested is more than what can be stored in cache, the CPU fetches it from main memory and returns it through the write buffer. Now what?

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When the amount of data requested is more than what can be stored in cache, the CPU fetches it from main memory and returns it through the write buffer. Now what?

 

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