A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, Second Edition / by Vijay Nagarajan, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood.

• Superior document: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture,
• VerfasserIn: Nagarajan, Vijay.; Sorin, Daniel J.; Hill, Mark D.; Wood, David A.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2020.
• Language: English
• Series: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XX, 276 p.)

Many modern computer systems, including homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, support shared memory in hardware. In a shared memory system, each of the processor cores may read and write to a single shared address space. For a shared memory machine, the memory consistency model defines the ar...