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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2009
Ganesh Kumar, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Dheemanth Nagaraj, Bangalore, IN;
Vincent R. Freytag, Windsor, CO (US);
Eric Delano, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Gregory S. Averill, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Ganesh Kumar, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Dheemanth Nagaraj, Bangalore, IN;
Vincent R. Freytag, Windsor, CO (US);
Eric DeLano, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Gregory S. Averill, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a read request from a first caching agent and if a directory entry associated with the request is in an unknown state, an invalidating snoop message is sent to at least one other caching agent to invalidate information in a cache location of the other caching agent corresponding to the location of the read request, to enable setting of the directory entry into a known state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.