Flexible use of L2 cache slices has been heavily explored in academia. Here is one example: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/ieeemicro08_virtual_hiera

Flexible use of L2 cache slices has been heavily explored in academia. Here is one example: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/ieeemicro08_virtual_hierarchies.pdf http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/ieeemicro08_virtual...