公开(公告)号：US20220308999A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17215435

申请日：2021-03-29

Applicant: Arm Limited

Inventor： Joshua Randall ,  Jamshed Jalal ,  Tusher P. Ringe ,  Jesse Garrett Beu

IPC: G06F12/0831 ,  G06F12/084 ,  G06F12/0891

Abstract: An apparatus comprises snoop filter storage circuitry to store snoop filter entries corresponding to addresses and comprising sharer information. Control circuitry selects which sharers, among a plurality of sharers capable of holding cached data, should be issued with snoop requests corresponding to a target address, based on the sharer information of the snoop filter entry corresponding to the target address. The control circuitry is capable of setting a given snoop filter entry corresponding to a given address to an imprecise encoding in which the sharer information provides an imprecise description of which sharers hold cached data corresponding to the given address, and the given snoop filter entry comprises at least one sharer count value indicative of a number of sharers holding cached data corresponding to said address.