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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2005
Jean-francois Collard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sami Yehia, Cherry Hinton, GB;
Jean-Francois Collard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sami Yehia, Cherry Hinton, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and system for selectively applying one of a plurality of different memory coherence protocols are described. When an application is executed to generate a memory access transaction, a table can be evaluated to determine whether the transaction should be processed in accordance with a first memory coherence protocol or a second memory coherence protocol. Then, the transaction can be processed according to the selected memory coherence protocol. Alternatively, or in conjunction therewith, the application can be modified to execute more efficiently on a particular memory coherence protocol.