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Ramesh Panwar0
Philip A. Thomas0
Date of Patent
January 25, 2011
0Patent Application Number
118117000
Date Filed
June 12, 2007
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
In general, this disclosure describes techniques of ensuring cache coherency in a multi-processor computing system. More specifically, a relaxed coherency mechanism is described that provides the appearance of strong coherency and consistency to correctly written software executing on the multi-processor system. The techniques, as described herein, combine software synchronization instructions with certain hardware-implemented instructions to ensure cache coherency.
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