Module 12: "Multiprocessors on a Snoopy Bus"
  Lecture 27: "Scalable Snooping and AMD Hammer Protocol"
 

 

Special Topics

Virtually indexed caches

Virtual indexing

TLB coherence

TLB shootdown

Snooping on a ring

Scaling bandwidth

AMD Opteron

Opteron servers

AMD Hammer protocol

[From Chapter 6 of Culler, Singh, Gupta]