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Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2010
Applicants:

Kevin M. Lepak, Austin, TX (US);

Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, San Jose, CA (US);

William A. Hughes, San Jose, CA (US);

Benjamin Tsien, Fremont, CA (US);

Greggory D. Donley, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kevin M. Lepak, Austin, TX (US);

Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam, San Jose, CA (US);

William A. Hughes, San Jose, CA (US);

Benjamin Tsien, Fremont, CA (US);

Greggory D. Donley, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for accelerated shared data migration between cores. Using an Always Migrate protocol, when a migratory probe hits a directory entry in either modified or owned state, the entry is transitioned to an owned state, and a source done command is sent without sending cache block ownership or state information to the directory.


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