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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Anthony Asaro, Toronto, CA;
Kevin Normoyle, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Mark Hummel, Franklin, MA (US);
Norman Rubin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mark Fowler, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Anthony Asaro, Toronto, CA;
Kevin Normoyle, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Mark Hummel, Franklin, MA (US);
Norman Rubin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mark Fowler, Hopkinton, MA (US);
ATI Technologies ULC, Ontario, CA;
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provides for the execution of threads and/or workitems on multiple processors of a heterogeneous computing system in a manner that they can share data correctly and efficiently. Disclosed method, system, and article of manufacture embodiments include, responsive to an instruction from a sequence of instructions of a work-item, determining an ordering of visibility to other work-items of one or more other data items in relation to a particular data item, and performing at least one cache operation upon at least one of the particular data item or the other data items present in any one or more cache memories in accordance with the determined ordering. The semantics of the instruction includes a memory operation upon the particular data item.