The management of transactions received by a coherency controller is
disclosed. A method of an embodiment of the invention is performed by a
coherency controller of a plurality of coherency controllers of a node
that has a plurality of sub-nodes. The coherency controller receives a
transaction from one of the sub-nodes of the node. The transaction may
relate to another sub-node of the node. However, the coherency controller
nevertheless processes the transaction without having to send the
transaction to another coherency controller of the node, even though the
sub-node from which the transaction was received is different than the
sub-node to which the transaction relates. The plurality of coherency
controllers is thus shared by all of the plurality of sub-nodes of the
node.