METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPECULATIVELY INVALIDATING LINES IN A CACHE

摘要

A cache controller (419) configured to speculatively invalidate a cache line may respond to an invalidating request or instruction immediately instead of waiting for error checking to complete. In case the error checking determines that the invalidation is erroneous and thus should not be performed, the cache controller protects the speculatively invalidated cache line from modification until error checking is complete. This way, if the invalidation is later found to be erroneous, the speculative invalidation can be reversed. If error checking completes without detecting any errors, the speculative invalidation becomes non-speculative.