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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2016
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Derek R. Kumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1009 (2016.01); G06F 12/0804 (2016.01); G06F 12/1045 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 12/1045 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1041 (2013.01); G06F 2212/455 (2013.01); G06F 2212/657 (2013.01); G06F 2212/68 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus of a device that manages virtual memory for a graphics processing unit is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device manages a graphics processing unit working set of pages. In this embodiment, the device determines the set of pages of the device to be analyzed, where the device includes a central processing unit and the graphics processing unit. The device additionally classifies the set of pages based on a graphics processing unit activity associated with the set of pages and evicts a page of the set of pages based on the classifying.