Control surface access using flat memory mapping

US11416402B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Niranjan L. Cooray · Folsom, US
• Altug Koker · Cameron Park, US
• Vidhya Krishnan · Folsom, US
• Ronald Silvas · Sacramento, US
• John H. Feit · Folsom, US
• Prasoonkumar Surti · Folsom, US
• Joydeep Ray · Folsom, US
• Abhishek R. Appu · Cameron Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 12, 2020
• Grant date: Aug 16, 2022
• Expiry date: Oct 12, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F12/0811
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus comprising a processor to allocate a first memory space for data for a graphics workload, the first memory comprising a first plurality of addressable memory locations, allocate a second memory space for compression metadata relating to the data for the graphics workload, the second memory space comprising a second plurality of addressable memory locations and having an amount of memory corresponding to a predetermined ratio of the amount of memory allocated to first memory space, and configure a direct memory mapping between the first plurality of addressable memory locations and the second plurality of addressable memory locations. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.