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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Kutty Banerjee, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin Bowman, London, GB;
Terence M. Potter, Austin, TX (US);
Tatsuya Iwamoto, Foster City, CA (US);
Gokhan Avkarogullari, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, embodiments are disclosed for tracking and allocating graphics processor hardware resources. More particularly, a graphics hardware resource allocation system is able to generate a priority list for a plurality of data masters for graphics processor based on a comparison between a current utilizations for the data masters and a target utilizations for the data masters. The graphics hardware resource allocation system designate, based on the priority list, a first data master with a higher priority to submit work to the graphics processor compared to a second data master. The graphics hardware resource allocation system determines a stall counter value for the data master and generates a notification to pause work for the second data master based on the stall counter value.