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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 12, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Eric P. Fried, Austin, TX (US);

Lance W. Russell, Rosanky, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/12 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0822 (2013.01); G06F 12/084 (2013.01); G06F 12/0831 (2013.01); G06F 15/17331 (2013.01); G06F 2212/154 (2013.01); G06F 2212/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

Mechanisms are provided for performing a write operation on a shared resource in a cluster of data processing systems. The mechanisms determine whether a locally cached copy of the shared resource is present in a local cache memory. The mechanisms, in response to a determination that a locally cached copy is present, determine whether the locally cached copy is a latest version of the shared resource. The mechanisms, in response to determining that that locally cached copy is a latest version: perform the write operation on the locally cached copy to generate an updated locally cached copy, and transmit a cluster event notification to other data processing systems of the cluster indicating the shared resource was written to and which data processing system performed the write operation. The cluster event notification is logged in at least one change log data structure associated with the other data processing systems.


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