By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), October 1, 2007 11:10 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
blaine (myname@acm.org) on 10/1/07 wrote:
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>David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 10/1/07 wrote:
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>Stuff elided.
>>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
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>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.
Does ccHT do critical word first?
DK
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>David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 10/1/07 wrote:
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>Stuff elided.
>>Do cache coherency protocols do critical word first? It seems like you would
>probably cut out a good bit of latency...
>>
>>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.
Does ccHT do critical word first?
DK