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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:
May. 03, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 08, 2020
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/52 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/0888 (2016.01); G06F 12/0837 (2016.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4013 (2013.01); G06F 9/3009 (2013.01); G06F 9/522 (2013.01); G06F 12/0837 (2013.01); G06F 12/0888 (2013.01); G06F 13/1668 (2013.01);
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.


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