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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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The Agents in an Interrupt Message Transaction

Refer to Figure 61-36 on page 1595.

Figure 61-36. The IO APIC and Pentium® 4 Family Processors

MCH Initiates an Interrupt Message Transaction

When the MCH initiates an interrupt message transaction on the FSB (on behalf of the IO APIC or a device adapter), the transaction has the following characteristics:

  • The MCH acts as the transaction's Request Agent.

  • The transaction is a memory transaction but the snoop in the processor caches will result in a miss (because the Local APIC's register space is designated as UC in the MTRRs).

  • The only valid snoop results would be a miss (neither HIT# nor HITM# asserted), ...

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