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Detailed info about snooping used in cache Cache Coherency ?

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Any link or detailed info available to understand snooping ?

posted Apr 23, 2015 by Sachidananda Sahu

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Snooping is the process where the individual caches monitor address lines for accesses to memory locations that they have cached. When a write operation is observed to a location that a cache has a copy of, the cache controller invalidates its own copy of the snooped memory location.

Not sure the about the detail requirement of the problem but you may look into the following link and comment back if there is any specific need.
https://numascale.com/snooping.html

answer Apr 23, 2015 by Salil Agrawal
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