1. A system comprising: a first node including data having an associated dirty (D) state; and a second node operative to provide a source broadcast requesting the data, the first node being operative in response to the source broadcast to provide the data to the second node and to transition the state associated with the data at the first node from the D-state to an owner (O) state without concurrently updating memory, a shared (S) state being associated with the data at the second node.