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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Scumbria who wrote (37473)9/26/1998 11:41:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) of 1572086
 
Scumbria - Re: "slow down Winstone because of extra clocks for snooping."

Bus snooping is used by one CPU to "watch" bus activity in a Multi-CPU system - to maintain cache coherency.

Why would a single processor snoop its own bus - unless it wasn't aware of what it was doing ?

Paul
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