When the TSL instruction is used for multiprocessor synchronization, the cache block containing the mutex will get

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When the TSL instruction is used for multiprocessor synchronization, the cache block containing the mutex will get shuttled back and forth between the CPU holding the lock and the CPU requesting it if both of them keep touching the block. To reduce bus traffic, the requesting CPU executes one TSL every 50 bus cycles, but the CPU holding the lock always touches the cache block between TSL instructions. If a cache block consists of 16 32-bit words, each of which requires one bus cycle to transfer, and the bus runs at 400 MHz, what fraction of the bus bandwidth is eaten up by moving the cache block back and forth?
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Modern Operating Systems

ISBN: 978-0133591620

4th edition

Authors: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos

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