Cache Maintenance Transactions

Hi,

I am reading ACE protocol and i am confused about when to use cache maintenance transactions. On what basis should i decide when to use cache maintenance transaction and which transaction to be used?

Can anyone please help?

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Christopher Tory over 6 years ago +1 suggested

The cache maintenance operations in ACE can be linked to the the cache maintenance operations executed by a master, such as an Arm processor. If we use the Arm Architecture as a reference, we can form...
Christopher Tory over 6 years ago in reply to Taniya Garg +1

It's an explicit decision by the programmer to execute an instruction that generates one of these instructions. If your target a cache maintenance instruction at a region of outer shareable memory, then...
amirovilivasso over 6 years ago in reply to Christopher Tory +1

for a region of outer shareable memory, all the masters in the Outer Shareable domain need to clean and invalidate this line if they have it. They know to do this by receiving a CleanInvalid snoop, which...