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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Stephen L. Blinick, Chandler, AZ (US);
Charles S. Cardinell, Tucson, AZ (US);
Roger G. Hathorn, Tucson, AZ (US);
Bernhard Laubli, Tucson, AZ (US);
Miguel A. Montoya, Tucson, AZ (US);
Timothy J. Van Patten, Broomfield, CO (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for locking a cache line for a burst write operations on a bus. A cache line is allocated in a cache for a target address. A lock is set for the cache line, wherein setting the lock prevents the data in the cache line from being cast out. Data is written to the cache line. All the data in the cache line is flushed to the target address over a bus in response to completing writing to the cache line.