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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2011
Robert Scott Hartog, Windemere, FL (US);
Ralph Clay Taylor, Deland, FL (US);
Michael Mantor, Orlando, FL (US);
Sebastien Nussbaum, Lexington, MA (US);
Rex Mccrary, Oviedo, FL (US);
Mark Leather, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Philip J. Rogers, Pepperell, MA (US);
Thomas R. Woller, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Scott Hartog, Windemere, FL (US);
Ralph Clay Taylor, Deland, FL (US);
Michael Mantor, Orlando, FL (US);
Sebastien Nussbaum, Lexington, MA (US);
Rex McCrary, Oviedo, FL (US);
Mark Leather, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Philip J. Rogers, Pepperell, MA (US);
Thomas R. Woller, Austin, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein provide a method of arbitrating a processing resource. The method includes receiving a command to preempt a task and preventing additional wavefronts associated with the task from being processed. The method also includes evicting currently executing wavefronts associated with the task from being processed based upon predetermined criteria.