Out-of-order snooping for multiprocessor computer systems
US6112283A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 6, 1998 |
| Grant date | Aug 29, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 6, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F12/0831
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In some embodiments, a computer system includes nodes connected through conductors. At least some of the nodes each include memory and processing circuitry to receive snoop requests in a node reception order and to initiate snoops of the memory in the node before the snoop requests are in a global order. The at least some nodes also each include an ordering buffer to receive the snoop requests and provide them at an output of the ordering buffer in the global order.
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