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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2012
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nicholas Wang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Lacky V. Shah, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Gerald F. Luiz, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Philip Alexander Cuadra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Luke Durant, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A streaming multiprocessor (SM) included within a parallel processing unit (PPU) is configured to suspend a thread group executing on the SM and to save the operating state of the suspended thread group. A load-store unit (LSU) within the SM re-maps local memory associated with the thread group to a location in global memory. Subsequently, the SM may re-launch the suspended thread group. The LSU may then perform local memory access operations on behalf of the re-launched thread group with the re-mapped local memory that resides in global memory.