In shared-memory multiprocessor systems, cache interventions from different sourcing caches can result in different cache intervention costs. With location-aware cache coherence, when a cache receives a data request, the cache can determine whether sourcing the data from the cache will result in less cache intervention cost than sourcing the data from another cache. The decision can be made based on appropriate information maintained in the cache or collected from snoop responses from other caches. If the requested data is found in more than one cache, the cache that has or likely has the lowest cache intervention cost is generally responsible for supplying the data. The intervention cost can be measured by performance metrics that include, but are not limited to, communication latency, bandwidth consumption, load balance, and power consumption.