Talk:MERSI protocol

Note that the description does not appear to agree with the 7400/7410 documentation. The point of the 'recent' state is to allow a line that is shared by more than one core to still have one core provide 'intervention' in order to reduce latency. Without this state, one would require all shared cores to provide data, since none of them would know how many other cores are capable of responding.

I can try to describe this better, if desired. I am wondering if MERSI as in G4 may be different than MERSI as in the patent from Intel.

BGrayson (talk) 14:49, 28 January 2011 (UTC)