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Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Derek E. Williams, Round Rock, TX (US);

Michael S. Siegel, Raleigh, NC (US);

Guy L. Guthrie, Austin, TX (US);

Bernard C. Drerup, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0811 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 2212/62 (2013.01);
Abstract

A multiprocessor data processing system includes multiple vertical cache hierarchies supporting a plurality of processor cores, a system memory, and an interconnect fabric coupled to the system memory and the multiple vertical cache hierarchies. Based on a request of a requesting processor core among the plurality of processor cores, a master in the multiprocessor data processing system issues, via the interconnect fabric, a read-type memory access request. The master receives via the interconnect fabric at least one beat of conditional data issued speculatively on the interconnect fabric by a controller of the system memory prior to receipt by the controller of a systemwide coherence response for the read-type memory access request. The master forwards the at least one beat of conditional data to the requesting processor core.


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