ACCELERATED RECOVERY FOR SNOOPED ADDRESSES IN A COHERENT ATTACHED PROCESSOR PROXY

• Main Authors: STUECHELI JEFF A, CUMMINGS DAVID W, SIEGEL MICHAEL S, BLANER BARTHOLOMEW, DALY, JR. GEORGE W
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.07.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A coherent attached processor proxy (CAPP) that participates in coherence communication in a primary coherent system on behalf of an external attached processor maintains, in each of a plurality of entries of a CAPP directory, information regarding a respective associated cache line of data from the primary coherent system cached by the attached processor. In response to initiation of recovery operations, the CAPP transmits, in a generally sequential order with respect to the CAPP directory, multiple memory access requests indicating an error for addresses indicated by the plurality of entries. In response to a snooped memory access request that targets a particular address hitting in the CAPP directory during the transmitting, the CAPP performs a coherence recovery operation for the particular address prior to a time indicated by the generally sequential order.