1. A method for performing memory operations in a computing system, comprising: transitioning a cache line associated with a memory location from a conventional MESI coherency protocol to one of a plurality of transactional coherency states associated with a Transaction operating state of a processor; performing updates to the cache line associated with the memory location, the updates to the cache line not being visible to other processors in the computing system; identifying the cache line with a transaction coherency state according to the update performed.