Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of CacheCoherence

Timestamp:

Jul 2, 2009, 2:23:24 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

alain

Comment:

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CacheCoherence

@@ -26 +26 @@
  * Direct transactions : READ / WRITE / LL / SC 
  * Coherence transactions : MULTI_UPDATE / MULTI_INVAL / BROADCAST_INVAL / CLEANUP
- * External Transactions : PUT / GET
+ * External transactions : PUT / GET
         
 For dead-lock prevention, these three types of transaction must be transported on three (virtually or physically) separated networks.
@@ -32 +32 @@
 As a general rule, all these transactions respect the VCI advanced packet format, and there is one response packet for each command packet : For a burst transaction, a READ command packets contains one single flit, and the corresponding READ response packets contains N flits. Symmetrically, a WRITE command packet contains N flits, and the corresponding WRITE response contains one single flit.
 
-There is one exception : For a BROADCAST_INVALIDATE transaction, the initiator sends one single flit VCI packet, but receives several single flit VCI response packets (see section 2.2).
+There is one exception : For a BROADCAST_INVALIDATE transaction, the initiator sends one single flit VCI packet, but receives several single flit VCI response packets.
   
 === 2.1  Direct transactions ===