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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Apodaca, Folsom, CA (US);
David M. Cimini, Orangevale, CA (US);
Thomas F. Raoux, Mountain View, CA (US);
Somnath Ghosh, San Jose, CA (US);
Uddipan Mukherjee, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Debraj Bose, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sthiti Deka, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yohai Gevim, Beit Yanai, IL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus relating to reducing memory latency in graphics operations are described. In an embodiment, uniform data is transferred from a buffer to a General Register File (GRF) of a processor based at least in part on information stored in a gather table. The uniform data comprises data that is uniform across a plurality of primitives in a graphics operation. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.