Consistency requirements for cached copies of the same memory location, including agreement on its writes. Cache coherence does not itself impose sequential consistency across different locations.
Independent data in the same cache line cause unnecessary ownership transfers or invalidations when different CPU cores access them. A frequently written lock beside stable reader data can invalidate those data despite no logical conflict.

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