MSI protocol

Tag: msi

Aliases: MSI

A three-state cache-coherence protocol (Modified, Shared, Invalid). Simplest snoopy protocol that supports multiple readers and one writer per block.

Lecture references

• L16 · Multiprocessors — p.35 , p.38 , p.39 , p.40 , p.41 , p.42 , p.43 , p.44 , p.45 , p.46 , p.47 , p.48 , p.75