Intel Corporation

William A Welch

Benjamin Tsien

Brannon J Batson

A messaging protocol that facilitates a distributed cache coherency conflict resolution in a multi-node system that resolves conflicts at a home node. The protocol may perform a method including supporting at least three protocol classes for the messaging protocol, via at least three virtual channels provided by a link layer of a network fabric coupled to the caching agents, wherein the virtual channels include a first virtual channel to support a probe message class, a second virtual channel to support an acknowledgment message class, and a third virtual channel to support a response message class.

Two-hop source snoop based messaging protocol

A method for cache coherency in a network of a plurality of caching agents includes storing a plurality of miss requests, transmitting the miss requests into the network, sending a probe message on a probe channel and a request message on a second channel from one of the plurality of caching agents, and maintaining an open status for the miss request until the requesting cache agent receives the data or an ownership indicator.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

William A Welch