发明名称 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING CACHE COHERENCY ACROSS A SERIAL INTERFACE BUS USING A SNOOP REQUEST AND COMPLETE MESSAGE
摘要 Techniques are disclosed for maintaining cache coherency across a serial interface bus such as a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) bus. The techniques include generating a snoop request (SNP) to determine whether first data stored in a local memory is coherent relative to second data stored in a data cache, the snoop request including destination information that identifies the data cache on the serial interface bus and causing the snoop request to be transmitted over the serial interface bus to a second processor. The techniques further include extracting a cache line address from the snoop request, determining whether the second data is coherent, generating a complete message (CPL) indicating that the first data is coherent with the second data, and causing the complete message to be transmitted over the bus to the first processor. The snoop request and complete messages may be vendor defined messages.
申请公布号 US2012290796(A1) 申请公布日期 2012.11.15
申请号 US201213557980 申请日期 2012.07.25
申请人 LANGENDORF BRIAN KEITH;GLASCO DAVID B.;COX MICHAEL BRIAN;ALBEN JONAH M. 发明人 LANGENDORF BRIAN KEITH;GLASCO DAVID B.;COX MICHAEL BRIAN;ALBEN JONAH M.
分类号 G06F12/08 主分类号 G06F12/08
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