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Cache Coherency

 

Multiple caches raise the cache coherency problem:

the value returned by a read is the last value written to that location.

e.g. processors 1 and 2 both read a cache line. Processor 1 updates it. A read by processor 2 must return the new data





Paul H J Kelly Mon Dec 1 20:13:28 GMT 1997