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Configuration based cache coherency protocol selection

US9898407B2 · kind B2 · utility

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11Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Ekaterina M. Ambroladze · Los Angeles, US
Deanna Postles Dunn Berger · Poughkeepsie, US
Michael Fee · Cold Spring, US
Arthur J. O'Neill · Poughkeepsie, US
Robert J. Sonnelitter, III · Wappingers Falls, US

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 20, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 3, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2212/622
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

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.

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