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Course contents

  • How to Use This Course
  • Reading Path
  • Cache Coherency Glossary
  • The Shared Course Model
  • Cache Coherency Revision Sheet
  • Why Coherence Exists8
  • States and Protocols12
  • Transactions12
  • Races and Controller Design8
  • Progress and the Fabric16
  • Ordering and Synchronization12
  • Performance and Scalability12
    • False Sharing
      • True Versus False Sharing
      • Counting Coherence Traffic
      • Padding and Data Layout
      • Finding False Sharing
    • Directory Capacity and Sharers
    • Hotspots and Placement
  • Real Protocols12
  • SoC Integration12
  • Power, Clocking and Reliability12
  • Verification12
  • Debug and Bring-up12
  • Interview and Design Review17
  • Capstone: A Coherent Model Lab5
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‹Performance and Scalability
  1. Topics
  2. Cache Coherency
  3. Performance and Scalability
  4. False Sharing

Part 7 · Performance and Scalability · All levels

False Sharing

Connect independent software fields to line-sized permission traffic, then test layout changes against evidence.

  • 4topics
  • 4lessons

Two cores can contend without using the same variable. Work from byte addresses and the course's 64-byte permission unit, count completed transfers, and separate a layout improvement from a changed algorithm.

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True Versus False Sharing

Classify sharing by logical data and physical line.

Counting Coherence Traffic

Compare identical writer schedules with preserved full-line values.

Padding and Data Layout

Choose separation while accounting for footprint and locality.

Finding False Sharing

Build a controlled address-level diagnosis.

Read the four lessons in order. The earlier write-transfer lesson supplies the message mechanism; this topic adds addresses, repeated work and a falsifiable layout experiment.

Check yourself If C0 and C1 write different words, is false sharing impossible?

No. Different words in one line still use one exclusive permission. The relevant boundary is the physical coherence line, not a source-language field.

Related topics

  • Shared course model

  • Prerequisite: write permission transfer

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  • Directory Capacity and Sharers
  • Hotspots and Placement