Notes on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence

June 27th, 2008 admin Posted in Information, Tutorials | 1 Comment »

Here are some of my notes on the topic of memory consistency and cache coherence, and how uniprocessor and multiprocessor cores have to be built to support the consistency models. Most of this was written up when I was preparing for my Qualifying Exam at NC State University last semester. This is a relatively complicated topic to understand well, and there might still be several mistakes in how I understood the ideas. Also, this might only make sense, and be interesting, to people familiar with these areas of computer architecture. Here’s the pdf file: Notes on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence