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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Altug Koker, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Prasoonkumar Surti, Folsom, CA (US);
Guei-Yuan Lueh, San Jose, CA (US);
Subramaniam Maiyuran, Gold River, CA (US);
Tomas G. Akenine-Moller, Lund, SE;
David J. Cowperthwaite, Portland, OR (US);
Balaji Vembu, Folsom, CA (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A processing apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a graphics processing unit (GPU), including a thread dispatcher to assign a priority class to each of a plurality of processing threads prior to dispatching the one or more processing threads, a plurality of execution units to process the threads, a shared resource coupled to each of the plurality of execution units and an arbitration unit to grant access to the shared resource to a first of the plurality of execution units based on the priority class of a thread being executed at the first execution unit.