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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yunbiao Lin, Shanghai, CN;
Changliang Wang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Satyanantha Ramagopal Musunuri, Bangalore, IN;
David Puffer, Tempe, AZ (US);
David J. Cowperthwaite, Portland, OR (US);
Bryan R. White, Chandler, AZ (US);
Balaji Vembu, Folsom, CA (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for managing pipes and planes within a virtual graphics processing engine. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: a graphics processor comprising one or more display pipes to render one or more display planes, each of the one or more display pipes comprising a set of graphics processing hardware resources for executing graphics commands and rendering graphics images in the one or more display planes; and pipe and plane management hardware logic to manage pipe and plane assignment, the pipe and plane management hardware logic to associate a first virtual machine (VM) with one or more virtual display planes and to maintain a mapping between the one or more virtual display planes and at least one physical display plane.