Granted Patent B2

US 8,423,721 · App. 12/112,508 · Granted Apr 16, 2013

Abstract

Claims (36)

1. A method of operating a data processing system, the method comprising:

detecting bus transactions on a system interconnect of a data processing system, the data processing system including at least two masters;

for each bus transaction detected on the system interconnect:

performing a cache coherency operation for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a single beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters, wherein the performing the cache coherency operation includes searching at least one cache of the data processing system to determine whether the at least one cache contains data associated with a memory address of the bus transaction;

not performing cache coherency operations in any cache of the data processing system for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a read transaction; and

not performing cache coherency operations in any cache of the data processing system for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a multiple beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters.

2. A method of operating a data processing system, the method comprising:

detecting bus transactions on a system interconnect of a data processing system, the data processing system including at least two masters;

for each bus transaction detected on the system interconnect:

performing a cache coherency operation for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a cacheable single beat write transaction, wherein the performing the cache coherency operation includes searching at least one cache of the data processing system to determine whether the at least one cache contains data associated with a memory address of the bus transaction;

not performing cache coherency operations in any cache of the data processing system for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a read transaction; and

not performing cache coherency operations in any cache of the data processing system for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a cacheable multiple beat write transaction by a any master of the at least two masters.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein, for each bus transaction on the system interconnect, the method further comprises not performing cache coherency operations in any cache of the data processing system for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a non cacheable write transaction.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the determining whether the bus transaction is a single beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters, a read transaction, or multiple beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters is performed by a cache coherency manager, wherein the cache coherency manager is operably coupled to the system interconnect;

the performing a cache coherency operation includes the cache coherency manager requesting to at least one cache of the data processing system that a cache coherency operation be performed in response to the determining that the bus transaction is a single beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters, wherein control logic in each cache of the at least one cache performs the search of the each cache, wherein the cache coherency manager does not request any cache of the data processing system to perform a cache coherency operation for the bus transaction in response to the determining that the bus transaction is a read transaction or a multiple beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining whether the bus transaction is a single beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters or a multiple beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters includes reading the value of a bus signal of the bus transaction and analyzing the value to determine a burst attribute.

6. A method of operating a data processing system, the method comprising:

detecting a bus transaction on a system interconnect of a data processing system by a cache coherency manager, the data processing system including at least two masters coupled to the system interconnect;

for each bus transaction detected on the system interconnect:

performing a cache coherency operation for the bus transaction when the bus transaction is determined to be a cacheable single beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters, and performing a cache coherency operation when the bus transaction is determined to be a cacheable multiple bit write transaction by a specific master of the at least two masters, wherein performing the cache coherency operation includes the cache coherency manager requesting at least one cache of the data processing system to perform a search to determine whether the at least one cache contains data associated with a memory address of the bus transaction;

not performing cache coherency operations in any cache of the data processing system for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a read transaction; and

not performing cache coherency operations in any cache of the data processing system for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a multiple beat write transaction generated by a master of the at least two masters that is not the specific master, wherein the not performing cache coherency operations includes the cache coherency manager not requesting any cache of the data processing system to search to determine whether a cache contains data associated with the memory address of the bus transaction.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein:

the determining whether the bus transaction is a cacheable single beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters, a cacheable multiple bit write transaction by the selected master of the at least two masters, a read transaction, or a multiple beat write transaction generated by the non-selected master of the at least two masters is performed by the cache coherency manager.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein, for each bus transaction detected on the system interconnect, not performing cache coherency operations in any cache of the data processing system for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a non cacheable write transaction.

9. A method of operating a data processing system, the method comprising:

detecting bus transactions on a system interconnect of a data processing system, the data processing system including a plurality of masters;

for each bus transaction detected on the system interconnect:

performing a cache coherency operation for the bus transaction when the bus transaction is determined to be a multiple beat write transaction generated by a specific one of the plurality of masters and performing a cache coherency operation for the bus transaction when the bus transaction is determined to be a single beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters, wherein performing the cache coherency operation includes searching at least one cache of the data processing system to determine whether the at least one cache contains data associated with a memory address of the bus transaction;

not performing cache coherency operations in any cache of the data processing system for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a multiple beat write transaction generated by a master of the plurality of masters that is not the specific one of the plurality of masters; and

not performing cache coherency operations in any cache of the data processing system for the bus transaction in response to determining that the bus transaction is a read transaction.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the predetermined one of the plurality of masters is a DMA master.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein:

the determining whether the bus transaction is a multiple beat write transaction generated by a specific one of the plurality of masters, a single beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters, a multiple beat write transaction generated by a master of the plurality of masters that is not the specific one of the plurality of masters, or a read transaction is performed by a cache coherency manager, wherein the cache coherency manager is operably coupled to the system interconnect; and

the performing a cache coherency operation includes the cache coherency manager requesting to at least one cache of the data processing system that a cache coherency operation be performed in response to the determining that the bus transaction is one of a multiple beat write transaction generated by a specific one of the plurality of masters or a single beat write transaction from any master of the at least two masters, wherein control logic in each cache of the at least one cache performs the search of the each cache, wherein the cache coherency manager does not request any cache of the data processing system to perform a cache coherency operation for the bus transaction in response to the determining that the bus transaction is a multiple beat write transaction generated by a master of the plurality of masters that is not the specific one of the plurality of masters or a read transaction.

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