Coarse grain coherency
US10373285B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 9, 2017 |
| Grant date | Aug 6, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 9, 2037 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2212/657
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
One embodiment provides for a general-purpose graphics processing device comprising a general-purpose graphics processing compute block to process a workload including graphics or compute operations, a first cache memory, and a coherency module enable the first cache memory to coherently cache data for the workload, the data stored in memory within a virtual address space, wherein the virtual address space shared with a separate general-purpose processor including a second cache memory that is coherent with the first cache memory.
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