Module 12: "Multiprocessors on a Snoopy Bus"
  Lecture 25: "Protocols for Split-transaction Buses"
 

 

Recap of inclusion

Inclusion and snoop

L2 to L1 interventions

Invalidation acks?

Intervention races

Tag RAM design

Exclusive cache levels

Split-transaction bus

New issues

SGI Powerpath-2 bus

Bus interface logic

Snoop results

[From Chapter 6 of Culler, Singh, Gupta]