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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2017
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rouslan L. Dimitrov, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kirill A. Dmitriev, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Andrei Khodakovsky, Belmont, CA (US);
Tzyywei Hwang, San Jose, CA (US);
Wishwesh Anil Gandhi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lacky Vasant Shah, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for rendering graphics frames allocates rendering work to multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) that are configured to allow access to pages of data stored in locally attached memory of a peer GPU. The method includes the steps of generating, by a first GPU coupled to a first memory circuit, one or more first memory access requests to render a first primitive for a first frame, where at least one of the first memory access requests targets a first page of data that physically resides within a second memory circuit coupled to a second GPU. The first GPU requests the first page of data through a first data link coupling the first GPU to the second GPU and a register circuit within the first GPU accumulates an access request count for the first page of data. The first GPU notifies a driver that the access request count has reached a specified threshold.