Engine to enable high speed context switching via on-die storage

US10649956B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Altug Koker · Cameron Park, US
• Prasoonkumar Surti · Folsom, US
• David Puffer · Tempe, US
• Subramaniam Maiyuran · Citrus, US
• Guei-Yuan Lueh · San Jose, US
• Abhishek R. Appu · Cameron Park, US
• Joydeep Ray · Folsom, US
• Balaji Vembu · Folsom, US
• Tomer Bar-On · Petah Tikva, IL
• Andrew T. Lauritzen · Victoria, CA
• Hugues Labbe · Folsom, US
• John G. Gierach · Portland, US
• Gabor Liktor · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 2017
• Grant date: May 12, 2020
• Expiry date: May 27, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2201/84
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units, and a first memory communicatively couple to the plurality of execution units, wherein the first shared memory is shared by the plurality of execution units and a copy engine to copy context state data from at least a first of the plurality of execution units to the first shared memory. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.