Upgrade and Update Rates (Traffic)

• Update traffic is substantial
• Main cause is multiple writes by a processor before a read by other
  • many bus transactions versus one in invalidation case
  • could delay updates or use merging
• Overall, trend is away from update based protocols as default
  • bandwidth, complexity, large blocks trend, pack rat for process migration
• Will see later that updates have greater problems for scalable systems

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