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anonymous

I'm a little confused on why Processor 0 chooses to send a read request to the processor 1 directory, why not the processor 2 directory?

bojianh

I think the address points to somewhere in Processor 1's memory.

yangwu

The mapping can come from the address space directly if it is memory on different processor. but i am confused when it is cache.. since every processor can get that chuck of memory, how to determine which processor is the host?

acfeng

I think that the memory blocks corresponding to each processor have fixed addresses so one could locate the correct location.

bysreg

same question with anonymous, how does processor 0 know it needs to send the message to processor 1?

kayvonf

The mapping of address (in this case X) to a directory home node is fixed by the system. One simple solution is to design a simple hash function that sets this mapping. (hash(X) = home node id).

In this example, we asserted that node 1 is the home node for address X. Further discussion on this topic popped on up this slide.