Cache Coherence

5/5/98


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Table of Contents

Cache Coherence

“Shared Memory” Multiprocessors

Warmup: Parallel I/O

Problems with Parallel I/O

Solutions

Snoopy Cache [ Goodman 1983 ]

Snoopy Cache Actions

Generalization to Several Processors

Cache State Transition Diagram

Observation

Multilevel Caches

Multiple Processes and Processors

Interleaving

Write Buffers

Sequential Consistency

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Author: Srinivas Devadas

Email: devadas@mit.edu

Home Page: http://cag-www.lcs.mit.edu/6.004

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