Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Coherency checking of invalidate transactions caused by snoop filter eviction in an integrated circuit
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Application No.: US14468536Application Date: 2014-08-26
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Publication No.: US09639470B2Publication Date: 2017-05-02
- Inventor: Sean James Salisbury , Andrew David Tune , Jamshed Jalal , Mark David Werkheiser
- Applicant: ARM LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F12/0831

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160062889A1 COHERENCY CHECKING OF INVALIDATE TRANSACTIONS CAUSED BY SNOOP FILTER EVICTION IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2016-03-03
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