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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2023
Applicant:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Inventor:
Michael John Livesley, Hertfordshire, GB;
Assignee:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/5016 (2013.01); G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for allocating memory for geometry processing in a 3-D graphics rendering system comprising multiple cores. Geometry processing work is divided up into discrete work-packages, which form an ordered sequence. Cores are assigned different work-packages to process, and make memory allocation requests to enable them to store the results of the processing. Memory allocation requests relating to the current earliest uncompleted work-package in the sequence are treated differently to other requests, and may be prioritised.