[Gems-users] 3 hop writeback MESI SCMP


Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:26:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: arrvindh shriraman <arrvindh_shriraman@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Gems-users] 3 hop writeback MESI SCMP
Hi folks,

Q1) In MESI SCMP why do you need a 3 hop writeback from L2 to memory.

If there's only a single physical link between a given L2 bank and memory module, does it matter that we have separate networks for the L2 req to Dir and  data-response from L2 to/from Dir.



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