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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2014
Marvell Israel (M.i.s.l) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Eitan Joshua, Ramot Menashe, IL;
Tawfik Bayouk, Meilya Village, IL;
Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L.) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a multi-core processing system configured to selectively enter a dormant mode, comprising: a plurality of processing cores; a plurality of cache memories, wherein a cache memory is associated with one or more corresponding processing cores; and a coherency fabric configured to transmit snoop commands to the respective caches to maintain data coherency in data stored in the respective caches, the coherency fabric comprising: a queue configured to intercept and store snoop commands that are directed to a first cache when a first processing core associated with the first cache is in the dormant mode.