Re: [Gems-users] Invalidate directory entry

["Lei Yang" <lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's for M state, right? For S state, would any action be taken? Thanks a 
lot for your time!
Lei
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Marty" <mikem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Lei Yang'" <lya755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'Gems Users'" 
<gems-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:39 PM
Subject: RE: [Gems-users] Invalidate directory entry


> > So after a replacement in L2 how does it notify the global directory? In
> > my
> > configuration I have 4 processors, each on a single chip. After a
> > processor
> > evicts a line from its L2, it has to invalidate the global directory to
> > change the state of this entry from S/M to I, right? I guess this was the
> > question I intended to ask in the first post, sorry for the confusion.
> The L2 controller issues a PUT request.