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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2004
Sanjiv Kapil, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanjiv Kapil, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Distinguishing between snoops initiated internally with respect to a processing unit and snoops initiated externally with respect to a processing unit allows maintenance of cache coherency for a processing unit with multiple independent cache nits. A processing unit with multiple independent cache units, issues an externally initiated snoop to its cache units. Responses from the multiple independent cache units are the basis for a unified response provided to at least the initiator of the external snoop. An internally initiated snoop is communicated to the host system, and communicated to peer cache unit(s) within the processing unit.