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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2006
Ian A. Buck, San Jose, CA (US);
John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael C. Shebanow, Saratoga, CA (US);
Lars S. Nyland, Carrboro, NC (US);
Ian A. Buck, San Jose, CA (US);
John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael C. Shebanow, Saratoga, CA (US);
Lars S. Nyland, Carrboro, NC (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for updating data in memory while executing multiple threads of instructions, involving receiving a single instruction from one of a plurality of concurrently executing threads of instructions, in response to the single instruction received, reading data from a specific memory location, performing an operation involving the data read from the memory location to generate a result, and storing the result to the specific memory location, without requiring separate load and store instructions, and in response to the single instruction received, precluding another one of the plurality of threads of instructions from altering data at the specific memory location while reading of the data from the specific memory location, performing the operation involving the data, and storing the result to the specific memory location.