Is it that when line is not ever shared, go to E state (for this particular cache line)?
yikesaiting
No it is not. Because we want to deal with READ miss. If other caches are in shared state, this cache should go to shared state as well because it is not writing.
Is it that when line is not ever shared, go to E state (for this particular cache line)?
No it is not. Because we want to deal with READ miss. If other caches are in shared state, this cache should go to shared state as well because it is not writing.