DSM Transaction Examples
DSM Transaction Examples
- The Widget uses a centralized directory model
- The coherency unit size is 128 bytes for bandwidth and overhead reasons
- The Widget employs a modular, custom, hardwired design that allows for significant concurrency between and within the DSM components
Some sample DSM transactions follow. With them,
we demonstrate how the Widget design capitalizes on
inherent parallelism of those activities. In understanding
these examples, the following should be noted: