GRAPHICS PROCESSORS

Abstract: disclosed is a method of operating a graphics processor when performing a processing pass that includes an initial “pilot” processing job that executes a respective initial “pilot” shader program that is to be executed in advance of a corresponding “main” shader program that will be executed for a separate “main” processing job within the same processing pass. a “main” processing job is permitted to be issued for processing concurrently with an initial “pilot” processing job on which it depends. to enforce dependencies between “main” and “pilot” shader execution in this case it is tracked whether any initial “pilot” processing jobs are currently being processed by the set of one or more processing cores and processing of tasks for “main” processing jobs is controlled accordingly.

Inventor(s): Philip Carlos Garcia, Olof Henrik Uhrenholt, Wing-Tsi Henry Wong, Mark Underwood

CPC Classification: G06F9/5038 (Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU])

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