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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2019
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abhishek R. Appu, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Joydeep Ray, Folsom, CA (US);
Altug Koker, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Balaji Vembu, Folsom, CA (US);
Pattabhiraman K, Bangalore, IN;
Matthew B. Callaway, Shingle Springs, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for dynamic provisioning, quality of service, and prioritization in a graphics processor. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a plurality of graphics processing resources; slice configuration hardware logic to logically subdivide the graphics processing resources into a plurality of slices; and slice allocation hardware logic to allocate a designated number of slices to each virtual machine (VM) of a plurality of VMs running in a virtualized execution environment, the slice allocation hardware logic to allocate different numbers of slices to different VMs based on graphics processing requirements and/or priorities of each of the VMs.