Re: [Gems-users] Invalidate directory entry

["hongxia sun" <sunhx.seraph@xxxxxxxxx>]

For M state, it sends PUTX. For S state, it sends PUTS.

2007/1/11, 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.
>
>
>
>


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