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US09507716B2 Coherency checking of invalidate transactions caused by snoop filter eviction in an integrated circuit 有权
在集成电路中由窥探滤波器驱逐引起的无效事务的一致性检查

Coherency checking of invalidate transactions caused by snoop filter eviction in an integrated circuit
Abstract:
An interconnect has coherency control circuitry for performing coherency control operations and a snoop filter for identifying which devices coupled to the interconnect have cached data from a given address. When an address is looked up in the snoop filter and misses, and there is no spare snoop filter entry available, then the snoop filter selects a victim entry corresponding to a victim address, and issues an invalidate transaction for invalidating locally cached copies of the data identified by the victim. The coherency control circuitry for performing coherency checking operations for data access transactions is reused for performing coherency control operations for the invalidate transaction issued by the snoop filter. This greatly reduces the circuitry complexity of the snoop filter.
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