Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Configuration based cache coherency protocol selection
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Application No.: US14548988Application Date: 2014-11-20
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Publication No.: US09886382B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Ekaterina M Ambroladze , Deanna P Berger , Michael F Fee , Arthur J O'Neill , Robert J Sonnelitter, III
- 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 William A. Kinnaman, Jr
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08 ; G06F12/0815 ; G06F12/084

Abstract:
Topology of clusters of processors of a computer configuration, configured to support any of a plurality of cache coherency protocols, is discovered at initialization time to determine which one of the plurality of cache coherency protocols is to be used to handle coherency requests of the configuration.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160147658A1 CONFIGURATION BASED CACHE COHERENCY PROTOCOL SELECTION Public/Granted day:2016-05-26
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