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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2019
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Olivier Giroux, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jack Choquette, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ronny Krashinsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steve Heinrich, Madison, AL (US);
Xiaogang Qiu, San Jose, CA (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
To synchronize operations of a computing system, a new type of synchronization barrier is disclosed. In one embodiment, the disclosed synchronization barrier provides for certain synchronization mechanisms such as, for example, 'Arrive' and 'Wait' to be split to allow for greater flexibility and efficiency in coordinating synchronization. In another embodiment, the disclosed synchronization barrier allows for hardware components such as, for example, dedicated copy or direct-memory-access (DMA) engines to be synchronized with software-based threads.