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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2009
Applicants:
James R. Vash, Littleton, MA (US);
Rishan Tan, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Inventors:
James R. Vash, Littleton, MA (US);
Rishan Tan, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus may provide for detecting a performance state transition in a processor core and bouncing a core snoop message on a shared interconnect ring in response to detecting the performance state transition. The core snoop message may be associated with the processor core, wherein a plurality of processor cores may be coupled to the shared interconnect ring via a distributed last level cache controller.