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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hema Chand Nalluri, Bengaluru, IN;
Ankur Shah, Folsom, CA (US);
Joydeep Ray, Folsom, CA (US);
Aditya Navale, Folsom, CA (US);
Altug Koker, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Murali Ramadoss, Folsom, CA (US);
Niranjan L. Cooray, Folsom, CA (US);
Jeffery S. Boles, Folsom, CA (US);
Aravindh Anantaraman, Folsom, CA (US);
David Puffer, Tempe, AZ (US);
James Valerio, North Plains, OR (US);
Vasanth Ranganathan, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus to facilitate memory barriers is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an interconnect, a device memory, a plurality of processing resources, coupled to the device memory, to execute a plurality of execution threads as memory data producers and memory data consumers to a device memory and a system memory and fence hardware to generate fence operations to enforce data ordering on memory operations issued to the device memory and a system memory coupled via the interconnect.