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| | Method, apparatus and system for acquiring a plurality of global promotion facilities through execution of an ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Although illustrated as a facility within system memory, those skilled in the art will appreciate that global promotion facility 32 may alternatively be implemented within a system or bus controller, bus bridge, response logic, or other component of data processing system 8. |
 | | System interconnect 12, which can comprise one or more buses, a switch fabric, or other interconnect architecture, serves as a conduit for communication among the devices (e.g., processing units 10, memory controller 24, etc.) coupled to system interconnect 12. |
 | | An entry within promotion awareness facility 99 for a particular processing unit 10 is also updated to a new value in response to snooping a request by the particular processor 10 for a different promotion bit 36. |
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