Performance of snoopy protocols

• Performance depends on the length of a write run

• Write run: sequence of write references by 1 processor to a shared address (or shared block) uninterrupted by either access by another processor or replacement

  • long write runs better to have write invalidate
  • short write runs better to have write update

• Decision between protocols done at run time

  • Competitive algorithms

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