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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 08, 2019
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

James Valerio, North Plains, OR (US);

Vasanth Ranganathan, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);

Joydeep Ray, Folsom, CA (US);

Abhishek R. Appu, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);

Ben J. Ashbaugh, Folsom, CA (US);

Brandon Fliflet, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);

Jeffery S. Boles, Folsom, CA (US);

Srinivasan Embar Raghukrishnan, Folsom, CA (US);

Rahul Kulkarni, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 1/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus comprising a processor to configure a plurality of contexts of a command engine to execute a graphics workload comprising a plurality of walkers, allocate, from a pool of execution units of a graphics processor, a subset of execution units to each walker in the plurality of walkers based at least in part on the predetermined number of walkers configured for the context, for each context in the plurality of contexts, dispatch one or more walkers of the plurality of walkers to the execution units, and upon dispatch of the one or more walkers of the plurality of walkers, write an opcode to a computer-readable memory indicating that the dispatch of the walker is complete, wherein the opcode comprises dependency data for the one or more walkers of the plurality of walkers. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.


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