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From: naim@nucsrl.UUCP (Naim Abdullah)
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Subject: Re: Anyone got a list of references on cache memories?
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Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 21:01:34 EDT
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/ nucsrl:net.arch / jack@mcvax.uucp (Jack Jansen) /  5:39 pm  Oct  1, 1986 /

>Does anyone out there have a list of references to articles on
>cache memories that they wouldn't mind sharing?
>What interests me most is work done on simple caches for multi-processors
>(so not the things that don't write through, and need funny memory
>boards that know their copy of a word is invalid, etc),

You might have a look at Kai Hwang & Faye Briggs book, "Computer Architecture
and Parallel Processing". It has an interesting section on multiprocessor
caches. I don't have my copy handy, but I remember that they give you a
reasonable number of references at the end of the chapter. Although, you
indicate that you are not too interested in algorithms that don't do write
through, the Hwang & Briggs book gives a really nice algorithm for a 
dynamic coherence check that does not require write through.

Another source of references would be Alan Jay Smith's article on cache
memories in the Sept. '82 issue of Computing Surveys.


>	Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
>	The shell is my oyster.

	Naim Abdullah
	Dept. of EECS
	Northwestern University
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