CPU Microarchitecture
A deep dive into CPU microarchitecture on Intel Granite Rapids - cache coherence and MESI, hardware/software prefetching, and IOMMU-based device isolation
- Cache Coherence Demystified: The MESI Protocol on Intel Granite Rapids
Deep dive into cache coherence and the MESI protocol on a 256-core Intel Granite Rapids system: microbenchmarks for ping-pong latency, false sharing, atomic contention, and lock primitives.