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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2022
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Panagiotis Velentzas, Hertfordshire, GB;
John W. Howson, Hertfordshire, GB;
Richard Broadhurst, Hertfordshire, GB;
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Abstract
A method of managing resources in a graphics processing pipeline includes, in response to selecting a task for execution within a texture/shading unit, allocating to the task both a static allocation of temporary registers for the entire task and a dynamic allocation of temporary registers. The dynamic allocation comprises temporary registers used by a first phase of the task only and the static allocation of temporary registers comprises any temporary registers that are used by the program and are live at a boundary between two phases. When the task subsequently reaches a boundary between two phases, the dynamic allocation of temporary registers are freed and a new dynamic allocation of temporary registers for a next phase of the task is allocated to the task.