Line swapping scheme to reduce back invalidations in a snoop filter

In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving a request for data from a processor of a plurality of processors, determining a cache entry location based, at least in part, on the request, storing the data in a cache corresponding to the processor at the cac...

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Hauptverfasser: MANDVIWALLA, MALCOLM, CHENG, KAI, FAHIM, BAHAA, PFLEDERER, KEITH, CHINTHAMANI, SUNDARAM
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Zusammenfassung:In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving a request for data from a processor of a plurality of processors, determining a cache entry location based, at least in part, on the request, storing the data in a cache corresponding to the processor at the cache entry location, and storing a coherency record corresponding to the data in an affinity corresponding to the cache.