19017672. Graphics Processor with Non-Blocking Concurrent Architecture (Imagination Technologies Limited)
Graphics Processor with Non-Blocking Concurrent Architecture
Organization Name
Imagination Technologies Limited
Inventor(s)
Luke T. Peterson of San Francisco CA US
James A. Mccombe of San Francisco CA US
Steven J. Clohset of San Francisco CA US
Jason R. Redgrave of Mountain View CA US
Graphics Processor with Non-Blocking Concurrent Architecture
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 19017672 titled 'Graphics Processor with Non-Blocking Concurrent Architecture
Original Abstract Submitted
In some aspects, systems and methods provide for forming groupings of a plurality of independently-specified computation workloads, such as graphics processing workloads, and in a specific example, ray tracing workloads. The workloads include a scheduling key, which is one basis on which the groupings can be formed. Workloads grouped together can all execute from the same source of instructions, on one or more different private data elements. Such workloads can recursively instantiate other workloads that reference the same private data elements. In some examples, the scheduling key can be used to identify a data element to be used by all the workloads of a grouping. Memory conflicts to private data elements are handled through scheduling of non-conflicted workloads or specific instructions and/or deferring conflicted workloads instead of locking memory locations.
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