Nvidia Corporation

Milton Lei

Shirish C Gadre

Jack H Choquette

Emmett Michael Kilgariff

Lacky V Shah

Rouslan Lyubomirov Dimitrov

Omkar Paranjape

Gentaro Hirota

Gregory Scott Palmer

Lei Yang

Rajballav Dash

Sriharsha Niverty

A parallel processing unit (e.g., a GPU), in some examples, includes a hardware scheduler and hardware arbiter that launch graphics and compute work for simultaneous execution on a SIMD/SIMT processing unit. Each processing unit (e.g., a streaming multiprocessor) of the parallel processing unit operates in a graphics-greedy mode or a compute-greedy mode at respective times. The hardware arbiter, in response to a result of a comparison of at least one monitored performance or utilization metric to a user-configured threshold, can selectively cause the processing unit to run one or more compute work items from a compute queue when the processing unit is operating in the graphics-greedy mode, and cause the processing unit to run one or more graphics work items from a graphics queue when the processing unit is operating in the compute-greedy mode. Associated methods and systems are also described.

Simultaneous compute and graphics scheduling

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Milton Lei