Abstract

A key challenge in architecting a CMP with many cores is maintaining cache coherence in an efficient manner. Directory-based protocols avoid the bandwidth overhead of snoop-based protocols, and therefore scale to a large number of cores. Unfortunately, conventional directory structures incur significant area overheads in larger CMPs.

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