A method and apparatus for reducing the snooping requirements of a cache system and for reducing latency problems in a cache system. When a snoop access occurs to the cache, and if snoop control logic determines that the previous snoop access involved the same memory location line, then the snoop control...http://www.google.de/patents/US5325503?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5325503 - Cache memory system which snoops an operation to a first location in a cache line and does not snoop further operations to locations in the same line
