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Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011

Filed:

May. 15, 2007
Applicants:

Matthias M. Wloka, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael Shebanow, Saratoga, CA (US);

Inventors:

Matthias M. Wloka, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael Shebanow, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/39 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, includes detecting a memory page miss associated with a thread operating on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). A request can be issued to receive the memory page associated with the memory page miss. There can be a switch into a runahead mode. During the runahead mode, a future memory page miss can be detected. During the runahead mode, a request can be issued to receive the future memory page associated with the future memory page miss.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Wloka, Matthias. (2011). Runahead execution for graphics processing units (U.S. Patent No. 8035648). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8035648

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