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pd43

Recall that this write may be slow: it has to broadcast it wants access to write, other cache lines may be dropped, there may be a flush to memory and a load of the line.

chenc3

When a processor is doing a write, it will use the bus to send out messages like busrdx, then how can a read happen concurrently when the bus is occupied?

pebbled

@chenc3 The bus between a CPU and main memory is many bits wide, so a single message like busrdx cannot "occupy" the entire bus. Are you thinking about the case in which a processor locks the bus? I'm not certain how this works, but there may be a way for one processor to prevent all other communication on the bus for the duration of some operation. But as I understand the scenario above, the read and write are occurring at different addresses, so there's really no need for this.