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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2007
John H. Edmondson, Arlington, MA (US);
Robert A. Alfieri, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Michael F. Harris, Raleigh, NC (US);
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
John H. Edmondson, Arlington, MA (US);
Robert A. Alfieri, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Michael F. Harris, Raleigh, NC (US);
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Write operations to a unit of compressible memory, known as a compression tile, are examined to see if data blocks to be written completely cover a single compression tile. If the data blocks completely cover a single compression tile, the write operations are coalesced into a single write operation and the single compression tile is overwritten with the data blocks. Coalescing multiple write operations into a single write operation improves performance, because it avoids the read-modify-write operations that would otherwise be needed.