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Ivan Godard
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Yes, no false sharing; the valid bits on each byte in cache are used by the coherence protocol so that several cores can own disjoint parts of the same line without having to swap the line back and forth. Invalidation is fire-and-forget; the writing core doesn’t have to get the line to write to it, and the sequential consistency memory model removes write-ordering issues so long as invalidations cannot cross in the mail, which is pretty easy to ensure in hardware.