By: blaine (myname.delete@this.acm.org), October 1, 2007 11:36 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 10/1/07 wrote:
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>Do cache coherency protocols do critical word first? It seems like you would probably cut out a good bit of latency...
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>David
Critical Word First not part of the coherency protocol. It can be part of the interconnect protocol. PPro derived busses do critical word first.
It does help latency.
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>Do cache coherency protocols do critical word first? It seems like you would probably cut out a good bit of latency...
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>David
Critical Word First not part of the coherency protocol. It can be part of the interconnect protocol. PPro derived busses do critical word first.
It does help latency.