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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2020
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sooraj Puthoor, Austin, TX (US);
Bradford Beckmann, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nuwan Jayasena, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anthony Gutierrez, Bellevue, WA (US);
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Implementing heterogeneous wavefronts on a graphics processing unit (GPU) is disclosed. A scheduler assigns heterogeneous wavefronts for execution on a compute unit of a processing device. The heterogeneous wavefronts include different types of wavefronts such as vector compute wavefronts and service-level wavefronts that vary in resource requirements and instruction sets. As one example, heterogeneous wavefronts may include scalar wavefronts and vector compute wavefronts that execute on scalar units and vector units, respectively. Distinct sets of instructions are executed for the heterogeneous wavefronts on the compute unit. Heterogeneous wavefronts are processed in the same pipeline of the processing device.