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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joydeep Ray, Folsom, CA (US);
Prathamesh Raghunath Shinde, Folsom, CA (US);
Ben J. Ashbaugh, Folsom, CA (US);
Wei-Yu Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Abhishek R. Appu, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Vasanth Ranganathan, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Dmitry Yurievich Babokin, San Jose, CA (US);
Ankur N. Shah, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for supporting generic pointers in hardware of a graphics processing unit (GPU) are provided. In various examples, a GPU includes multiple sub-cores each having a processing resource and a load/store pipeline. The processing resource is operable to receive a memory access message including a pointer and a memory type identifier indicative of the pointer representing a generic pointer. The processing resource is further operable to output a load or store operation to the load/store pipeline based on the memory access message, including computing an address for the load or store operation by adding a base address of a named memory type of a plurality of named memory types referenced by the generic pointer to an offset into a memory of the named memory type. The load/store pipeline is operable to, responsive to receipt of the load or store operation, access the memory at the address.