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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2019
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Nobuyuki Ohba, Sendai, JP;
Atsuya Okazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/0831 (2016.01); G06F 12/0815 (2016.01); G06F 12/084 (2016.01); G06F 12/0842 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0831 (2013.01); G06F 12/084 (2013.01); G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 12/0842 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1056 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2542 (2013.01); G06F 2212/306 (2013.01); G06F 2212/62 (2013.01); G06F 2212/621 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for identifying, in a system including two or more computing devices that are able to communicate with each other, with each computing device having with a cache and connected to a corresponding memory, a computing device accessing one of the memories, includes monitoring memory access to any of the memories; monitoring cache coherency commands between computing devices; and identifying the computing device accessing one of the memories by using information related to the memory access and cache coherency commands.