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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Mei L. Wilson, Redmond, WA (US);
Jitesh Krishnan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sathyanarayanan Karivaradaswamy, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Memory descriptor list caching and pipeline processing techniques are described. In one or more examples, a method is configured to increase efficiency of buffer usage within a pipeline of a computing device. The method includes creation of a buffer in memory of the computing device and caching of a memory descriptor list by the computing device that describes the buffer in a buffer information cache and has associated therewith a handle that acts as a lookup to the memory descriptor list. The method also includes passing the handle through the pipeline of the computing device for processing of data within the buffer by one or more stages of the pipeline such that access to the data is obtained by the one or more stages by using the handle as the lookup as part of a call to obtain the memory descriptor list for the buffer from the buffer information cache.