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By: Jonathan Kang (johnbk.delete@this.gmail.com), September 16, 2007 5:42 pm

A very nice article. Thank you for taking the time to write this.

One thing that drew my attention was remote prefetching. In the article, you covered the situation when a remote device would write to a processor cache directly. Even though this goes through the processor itself, doesn't this introduce situations where cache thrashing could occur?

Suppose the processor switches context during a "DMA" write. Is there a special cache tag that denotes that such regions shall not be touched?

Also interesting would be how complicated prefetch "patterns" could be.

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New article - The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect	Richard Cownie	2007/08/28 10:28 AM
New article - The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect	Vincent Diepeveen	2007/08/31 11:44 AM
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New article - The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect	Michael S	2007/09/02 02:25 AM
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New article - The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect	Joe Chang	2007/08/28 06:17 PM
New article - The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect	Joe Chang	2007/08/29 04:27 PM
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New article - The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect	Herbert Hum	2007/08/28 01:22 PM
Thanks	David Kanter	2007/08/28 04:13 PM
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Body:	No Text Jonathan Kang (johnbk.delete@this.gmail.com) on September 16, 2007 5:42 pm wrote: > A very nice article. Thank you for taking the time to write this. > > One thing that drew my attention was remote prefetching. In the article, you covered the situation > when a remote device would write to a processor cache directly. Even though this goes through > the processor itself, doesn't this introduce situations where cache thrashing could occur? > > Suppose the processor switches context during a "DMA" write. Is there a > special cache tag that denotes that such regions shall not be touched? > > Also interesting would be how complicated prefetch "patterns" could be.
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