The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2022
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Andrew Evan Gruber, Arlington, MA (US);
Yun Du, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for GPR optimization in a GPU based on a GPR release mechanism. More specifically, a GPU may determine at least one unutilized branch within an executable shader based on constants defined for the executable shader. Based on the at least one unutilized branch, the GPU may further determine a number of GPRs that can be deallocated from previously allocated GPRs. The GPU may deallocate, for a subsequent thread within a draw call, the number of GPRs from the previously allocated GPRs during execution of the executable shader based on the determined number of GPRs to be deallocated.