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Correct. Typically the cache snoops the main memory bus. If a remote CPU starts a read on a cached memory location, the caching CPU sends a "stall" or "retry" signal to the reader, does a cache flush to main memory, and then lets the remote CPU proceed with the (now correct) main memory read.


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