With the MESI protocol, a write hit also stalls the processor, right?

caching,architecture,multiprocessing,vhdl,mesi

Do not confuse latency with throughput. Invalidation messages will take multiple cycles to complete but you can pipeline the process. It is possible to built a pipelined cache, that is able to start the processing of new invalidation messages before the previous ones have been completed. The MESI protocol does...