International Business Machines Corporation

Lorraine Maria Herger

Michael Edward Wazlowski

Kenneth Blair Ocheltree

Kwok-Ken Mak

Tu-Chih Tsai

A method of maintaining cache coherency in a computer system including two or more processors sharing information, the processors coupled by two or more interconnects to a memory such that the processors are not directly coupled to the same is disclosed interconnect is disclosed. The method of maintaining cache coherency includes the steps of: accessing and sharing, by a first processor and a second processor, information from the memory and setting path indicators in directories associated with at least two of the interconnects on a respective first and second access path to the memory, and storing the information in respective associated first and second caches; and writing a new value to the information, by a writing processor sharing the information, the writing step including the steps of: invalidating other copies of the information via the path indicators; acquiring exclusive access to the information by changing the path indicators to an exclusive state; and writing the new value to the information, in response to the acquiring step.

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Lorraine Maria Herger