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  • Out-of-order snooping for multiprocessor computer systems
    Patent number: 6112283
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer system includes nodes connected through conductors. At least some of the nodes each include memory and processing circuitry to receive snoop requests in a node reception order and to initiate snoops of the memory in the node before the snoop requests are in a global order. The at least some nodes also each include an ordering buffer to receive the snoop requests and provide them at an output of the ordering buffer in the global order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gilbert A. Neiger, Nicholas D. Wade, Kai Cheng