SPEED DMON:Cache Coherence on an Optical Multichannel Interconnect Architecture

This paper presents a low-overhead, high-performance cache coherence protocol and an interconnect architecture designed to exploit high-bandwidth point-to-point and broadcast features of an optical multichannel interconnect.SPEED DMONintegrates the virtues of snoopy-based schemes and directory-based schemes into a robust hybrid architecture. Directory-assist is used exclusively for decoupled read traffic to eliminate unnecessary broadcasts, while snoopy-assist is used exclusively for write and synchronization traffic to reduce directory overhead and synchronization complexities. The proposed scheme has the potential to reduce network latency by up to 85% as a result of its global independence between read and write operations, full concurrency in channel access, reduced link contention, and efficient broadcast of coherence and synchronization events.