Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Meetesh Barua

B Anil Kumar

Hao Zhang

Meher P Malakapalli

Artem Belkine

Eric K Han

Lin Tan

Winston Matthew Penfold Johnston

Pandele Stanescu

Jeroen Dirk Meijer

Meher Prasad Malakapalli

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing domain, hull, and geometry shaders in a para-virtualized environment. As such, a guest application executing in a child partition is enabled use a programmable GPU pipeline of a physical GPU. A vGPU (executing in the child partition) is presented to the guest application. The vGPU exposes DDIs of a rendering framework. The DDIs enable the guest application to send graphics commands to the vGPU, including commands for utilizing a domain shader, a hull shader, and/or a geometric shader at a physical GPU. A render component (executing within the root partition) receives physical GPU-specific commands from the vGPU, including commands for using the domain shader, the hull shader, and/or the geometric shader. The render component schedules the physical GPU-specific command(s) for execution at the physical GPU.

Para-virtualized domain, hull, and geometry shaders

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