Does GPU has the coherence protocol which like CPU use Directory or Snooping ?
How to guarantee the coherence for different SMs use same variable If GPU hasn’t coherence protocol?
L1 caches on a GPU are not in any way guaranteed to be coherent with each other, and there is no coherence mechanism to make it so.
A simple mechanism to “guarantee coherence” is to avoid use of the L1. This can be done in a variety of ways. This topic is covered extensively in other questions on the web. Here is a recent one.
Note that some GPUs have L1 disabled by default for global loads anyway, including certain kepler and maxwell variants.
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