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ajindia

Here, while the response bus is in use, the request bus is free. A processor can hence place another request to be processed while the response bus handles a different response. This way, all the buses can be utilized to their maximum capacity.

bottie

Due to the split-transaction bus, the request bus and response bus will not affect each other, then we can pipeline the transactions.

danielk2

The tag check is the point where the client can issue negative acknowledgments(NACKs). If so, there will be another try to send the data over Response Bus.