scu（snoop control unit）

在ARM芯片上看到SCU这个模块，不知道是什么意思，搜了下，结果：

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0407e/BABFAHID.html

我的理解（仅供参考，可能错误）：维护多CPU核之间的数据缓存的一致性，主要作用是CPU控制缓存的操作。

Chapter 2. Snoop Control Unit

This chapter describes the Snoop Control Unit (SCU).It contains the following sections:

• About the SCU

• SCU registers.

• AMBA AXI Master Port Interfaces

• AXI master interface clocking

• Accelerator Coherency Port

• Event communication with an externalagent using WFE/SEV.

2.1. About the SCU

The SCU connects one to four Cortex-A9 processors to the memory system through the AXI interfaces.

The SCU functions are to:

• maintain data cache coherency between the Cortex-A9 processors

• initiate L2 AXI memory accesses

• arbitrate between Cortex-A9 processors requestingL2 accesses

• manage ACP accesses.

Note

The Cortex-A9 SCU does not support hardware management of coherency of the instruction cache.