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Method for preempting graphics tasks to accommodate compute tasks in an accelerated processing device (APD)

US8803891B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. · US

Inventors

Robert Scott Hartog · San Luis Obispo, US
Ralph Clay Taylor · DeLand, US
Michael Mantor · Orlando, US
Sebastien Nussbaum · Lexington, US
Rex Eldon McCrary · Boca Raton, US
Mark Leather · Saratoga, US
Philip J. Rogers · Corwen, GB
Thomas R. Woller · Austin, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 30, 2011
Grant date	Aug 12, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 20, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/38885
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Embodiments described herein provide a method of arbitrating a processing resource. The method includes receiving a command to preempt a task and preventing additional wavefronts associated with the task from being processed. The method also includes evicting currently executing wavefronts associated with the task from being processed based upon predetermined criteria.

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