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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ashwini Nanda, Mohegan Lake, NY (US);
Krishnan Sugavanam, Mahopac, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
A method and structure for a “dynamic CCR/sparse directory implementation,” includes maintaining state information of the main memory cached in the shared caches of the other compute nodes, organizing a cache directory so that the state information can be stored in a first area efficient CCR directory format, switching to a second sparse directory format if the entry is shared by more than one other compute node, and dynamically switching between formats so as to maximize the number of entries stored in the directory.