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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2018
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rajballav Dash, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory Palmer, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Gentaro Hirota, San Jose, CA (US);
Lacky Shah, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jack Choquette, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Emmett Kilgariff, San Jose, CA (US);
Sriharsha Niverty, Karnataka, IN;
Milton Lei, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
Omkar Paranjape, Austin, TX (US);
Lei Yang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rouslan Dimitrov, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A parallel processing unit (e.g., a GPU), in some examples, includes a hardware scheduler and hardware arbiter that launch graphics and compute work for simultaneous execution on a SIMD/SIMT processing unit. Each processing unit (e.g., a streaming multiprocessor) of the parallel processing unit operates in a graphics-greedy mode or a compute-greedy mode at respective times. The hardware arbiter, in response to a result of a comparison of at least one monitored performance or utilization metric to a user-configured threshold, can selectively cause the processing unit to run one or more compute work items from a compute queue when the processing unit is operating in the graphics-greedy mode, and cause the processing unit to run one or more graphics work items from a graphics queue when the processing unit is operating in the compute-greedy mode. Associated methods and systems are also described.