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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2014
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Chung-Lung Kevin Shum, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Kathryn Marie Jackson, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Charles Franklin Webb, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 12/0817 (2013.01); G06F 12/0837 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer system microprocessor core having a cache subsystem executes a demote instruction to cause an exclusively owned demote instruction specified cache line owned by the same microprocessor core to be shared or read-only.