Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distributed cache coherency directory with failure redundancy
- Patent Title (中): 具有故障冗余的分布式缓存一致性目录
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Application No.: US13758491Application Date: 2013-02-04
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Publication No.: US09135175B2Publication Date: 2015-09-15
- Inventor: Thomas M Wicki , Stephen E Phillips , Nicholas E Aneshansley , Ramaswamy Sivaramakrishnan , Paul N Loewenstein
- Applicant: Oracle International Coporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood Shores
- Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
- Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood Shores
- Agency: Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel
- Agent Erik A. Heter
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F11/07

Abstract:
A system includes a number of processors with each processor including a cache memory. The system also includes a number of directory controllers coupled to the processors. Each directory controller may be configured to administer a corresponding cache coherency directory. Each cache coherency directory may be configured to track a corresponding set of memory addresses. Each processor may be configured with information indicating the corresponding set of memory addresses tracked by each cache coherency directory. Directory redundancy operations in such a system may include identifying a failure of one of the cache coherency directories; reassigning the memory address set previously tracked by the failed cache coherency directory among the non-failed cache coherency directories; and reconfiguring each processor with information describing the reassignment of the memory address set among the non-failed cache coherency directories.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140181420A1 DISTRIBUTED CACHE COHERENCY DIRECTORY WITH FAILURE REDUNDANCY Public/Granted day:2014-06-26
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