发明名称 FAST INTER-STRAND DATA COMMUNICATION FOR PROCESSORS WITH WRITE-THROUGH L1 CACHES
摘要 A method is disclosed that uses a non-coherent store instruction to reduce inter-thread communication latency between threads sharing a level one write-through cache. When a thread executes the non-coherent store instruction, the level one cache is immediately updated with the data value. The data value is immediately available to another thread sharing the level-one write-through cache. A computer system having reduced inter-thread communication latency is disclosed. The computer system includes a first plurality of processor cores, each processor core including a second plurality of processing engines sharing a level one write-through cache. The level one caches are connected to a level two cache via a crossbar switch. The computer system further implements a non-coherent store instruction that updates a data value in the level one cache prior to updating the corresponding data value in the level two cache.
申请公布号 US2009106495(A1) 申请公布日期 2009.04.23
申请号 US20070877110 申请日期 2007.10.23
申请人 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 发明人 CHOU YUAN C.
分类号 G06F13/28 主分类号 G06F13/28
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