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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2014
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Ekaterina M Ambroladze, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Deanna P Berger, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Michael F Fee, Cold Spring, NY (US);
Arthur J O'Neill, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Robert J Sonnelitter, III, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 12/0815 (2016.01); G06F 12/084 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 12/084 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01); G06F 2212/314 (2013.01); G06F 2212/60 (2013.01); G06F 2212/622 (2013.01);
Abstract
Topology of clusters of processors of a computer configuration, configured to support any of a plurality of cache coherency protocols, is discovered at initialization time to determine which one of the plurality of cache coherency protocols is to be used to handle coherency requests of the configuration.