Coherency control module for maintaining cache coherency in a multi-processor-bus system

1. Field of the Invention A mechanism for efficiently filtering snoop requests in a multi-processor bus system. Specifically, a snoop filter is provided to filter unnecessary snoops in a multi-bus system.

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Hauptverfasser: Jones, Phillip M, Rawlins, Paul B
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:1. Field of the Invention A mechanism for efficiently filtering snoop requests in a multi-processor bus system. Specifically, a snoop filter is provided to filter unnecessary snoops in a multi-bus system.