A system and method are provided for directly accessing a cache for data. A data transfer request is sent to a system bus for transferring data to a system memory. The data transfer request is snooped. A snoop request is sent to a cache. It is determined whether the snoop request has a valid entry in the cache. Upon determining that the snoop request has a valid entry in the cache, the data is caught and sent to the cache for update.

 
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