发明申请
US20080109816A1 METHOD, PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR MICROPROCESSOR COMMUNICATION IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR SYSTEM
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多处理器系统中微处理器通信的方法,处理单元和数据处理系统
- 专利标题: METHOD, PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR MICROPROCESSOR COMMUNICATION IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR SYSTEM
- 专利标题(中): 多处理器系统中微处理器通信的方法,处理单元和数据处理系统
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申请号: US11971959申请日: 2008-01-10
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公开(公告)号: US20080109816A1公开(公告)日: 2008-05-08
- 发明人: RAVI ARIMILLI , Robert Cargnoni , Derek Williams , Kenneth Wright
- 申请人: RAVI ARIMILLI , Robert Cargnoni , Derek Williams , Kenneth Wright
- 主分类号: G06F9/50
- IPC分类号: G06F9/50
摘要:
A processor communication register (PCR) contained in each processor within a multiprocessor system provides enhanced processor communication. Each PCR stores identical processor communication information that is useful in pipelined or parallel multi-processing. Each processor has exclusive rights to store to a sector within each PCR and has continuous access to read the contents of its own PCR. Each processor updates its exclusive sector within all of the PCRs, instantly allowing all of the other processors to see the change within the PCR data, and bypassing the cache subsystem. Efficiency is enhanced within the multiprocessor system by providing processor communications to be immediately transferred into all processors without momentarily restricting access to the information or forcing all the processors to be continually contending for the same cache line, and thereby overwhelming the interconnect and memory system with an endless stream of load, store and invalidate commands.
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