Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Techniques for preserving an invalid global domain indication when installing a shared cache line in a cache
- Patent Title (中): 在缓存中安装共享缓存行时,保留无效全局域指示的技术
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Application No.: US14306661Application Date: 2014-06-17
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Publication No.: US09483403B2Publication Date: 2016-11-01
- Inventor: Guy L. Guthrie , Hien Minh Le , Jeffrey A. Stuecheli , Phillip G. Williams
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Michael R. Long; Steven L. Bennett
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F12/08

Abstract:
A technique for operating a memory system for a node includes interrogating, by a cache, an associated cache directory to determine whether a shared cache line to be installed in the cache is associated with an invalid global state in the cache. The invalid global state specifies that a version of the shared cache line has been intervened off-node. In response to the shared cache line being in the invalid global state the cache spawns a castout invalid global command for the shared cache line. The shared cache line is installed in the cache. A coherence state for the shared cache line is updated in the associated cache directory to indicate the shared cache line is shared.
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