Hardware interview practice
Meaning of the MOESI Owned state
In MOESI, which statement correctly describes a line in the Owned state?
Choose one
Answer choices
- A. This cache has the only clean copy and memory is current
- B. This cache may supply the line, the line is dirty relative to memory, and other caches may hold shared copies
- C. This cache may write without any coherence transaction
- D. The line is invalid locally but reserved for a pending fill