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Exclusivity via Multi-level Collaboration

When multiple layers of cache can be modified to communicate with each other, most of the guesswork of simulating cache contents can be avoided. Even though extensions are required to the communication protocol, this class has proven to be the most promising in terms of performance and ease of implementation.



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