Method and apparatus for self-snooping a bus during a boundary t

Details Method and apparatus for self-snooping a bus during a boundary t Method and apparatus for self-snooping a bus during a boundary t

1997-09-02

1998-08-18

Shah, Alpesh M.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

711146, G06F 1300

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057970262

ABSTRACT:
A self-snooping mechanism for enabling a processor being coupled to dedicated cache memory and a processor-system bus to snoop its own request issued on the processor-system bus. The processor-system bus enables communication between the processor and other bus agents such as a memory subsystem, I/O subsystem and/or other processors. The self-snooping mechanism is commenced upon determination that the request is based on a boundary condition so that initial internal cache lookup is bypassed to improve system efficiency.

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