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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2016
Stephen P. Johnson, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen P. Johnson, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for an efficient multi-GPU virtualization environment. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs) to be shared by a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) within a virtualized execution environment; a shared memory to be shared between the plurality of VMs and GPUs executed within the virtualized graphics execution environment; the GPUs to collect performance data related to execution of commands within command buffers submitted by the VMs, the GPUs to store the performance data within the shared memory; and a GPU scheduler and/or driver to schedule subsequent command buffers to the GPUs based on the performance data.
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