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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael S. Siegel, Raleigh, NC (US);
Guy L. Guthrie, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A coherent data processing system includes a system fabric communicatively coupling a plurality of nodes arranged in a plurality of groups. A plurality of coherence agents are distributed among the nodes and are assigned responsibility for certain addresses. A topology data structure indicates by group and node differing physical locations within the data processing system of the plurality of coherence agents. A master accesses the topology data structure utilizing a request address to obtain a particular group and node of a particular coherence agent uniquely assigned the request address. The master initially issues, on the system fabric, a memory access request specifying the request address and utilizing a remote scope of broadcast that includes the particular node and excludes at least one other node in the particular group, where the particular node is a different one of the plurality of nodes than a home node containing the master.