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The Unabridged Pentium 4 IA32 Processor Genealogy
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The Unabridged Pentium 4 IA32 Processor Genealogy

by Tom Shanley, Bob Colwell
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1744 pages
35h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Uniprocessor vs. Multiprocessor Bus

The FSB utilized on IA32 processors prior to the advent of the P6 processor family was ill-suited in a platform wherein multiple processors reside on the FSB (see Figure 44-1 on page 1140).

The Pentium® Pro FSB was specifically designed to support multiple processors on the same bus, and the Pentium® 4/M FSB is a derivative of the P6 FSB. The following major changes were made:

  • In a typical Pentium® 4/M FSB environment, up to 12 transactions can simultaneously be in progress at various stages of completion.

  • If the target of a transaction (i.e., the Response Agent) cannot deal with a new transaction right now (e.g., due to a temporary logic busy condition), rather than tie up the bus by inserting wait states, ...

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