The document discusses the memory model of a processor and how it organizes and accesses memory. It mentions that processors may gather outgoing transactions, acknowledge transactions early from the nearest bus boundary, and reorder memory requests to gain performance. Knowing whether the memory model is weak or strong is important for writing software.
The document discusses the memory model of a processor and how it organizes and accesses memory. It mentions that processors may gather outgoing transactions, acknowledge transactions early from the nearest bus boundary, and reorder memory requests to gain performance. Knowing whether the memory model is weak or strong is important for writing software.
The document discusses the memory model of a processor and how it organizes and accesses memory. It mentions that processors may gather outgoing transactions, acknowledge transactions early from the nearest bus boundary, and reorder memory requests to gain performance. Knowing whether the memory model is weak or strong is important for writing software.
The document discusses the memory model of a processor and how it organizes and accesses memory. It mentions that processors may gather outgoing transactions, acknowledge transactions early from the nearest bus boundary, and reorder memory requests to gain performance. Knowing whether the memory model is weak or strong is important for writing software.
The Memory Model of a processor describes how memory is organized and accessed by
the processor. Does the Processor pull of hidden tricks for performance gains? Like -
Gathering outgoing transactions.
Early acknowledge a transaction from the nearest bus boundary. Reorder memory reuests. Knowing what the CPU would consider as weak or strong memory is important. This greatly helps write the right software.