
9.8 Exercises 745
Special ( ) ? Make sure that you justify your answer. Also make sure to
note the issue and completion time of each synchronization event.
b.
How many cycles will it take to return from receiveSpecial
( )
under re-
lease consistency?
9.23 In eager release consistency, diffs, like write notices, are created and also propagated
at release time, whereas in one form of lazy release consistency they are created at
release time but propagated only at acquire time (that is, when the acquire synchro-
nization request comes to the processor). In general, data may be propagated with
varying degrees of laziness just like write notices. ...