Invention Grant
US07774555B2 Data processing system and method for efficient coherency communication utilizing coherency domain indicators
有权
数据处理系统和方法,利用相干域指标进行有效的一致性通信
- Patent Title: Data processing system and method for efficient coherency communication utilizing coherency domain indicators
- Patent Title (中): 数据处理系统和方法,利用相干域指标进行有效的一致性通信
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Application No.: US11835259Application Date: 2007-08-07
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Publication No.: US07774555B2Publication Date: 2010-08-10
- Inventor: James Stephen Fields, Jr. , Guy Lynn Guthrie , William John Starke , Jeffrey Adam Stuecheli
- Applicant: James Stephen Fields, Jr. , Guy Lynn Guthrie , William John Starke , Jeffrey Adam Stuecheli
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Dillon & Yudell LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00

Abstract:
In a cache coherent data processing system including at least first and second coherency domains, a memory block is stored in a system memory in association with a domain indicator indicating whether or not the memory block is cached, if at all, only within the first coherency domain. A master in the first coherency domain determines whether or not a scope of broadcast transmission of an operation should extend beyond the first coherency domain by reference to the domain indicator stored in the cache and then performs a broadcast of the operation within the cache coherent data processing system in accordance with the determination.
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