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Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 17, 2012
Applicants:

Anthony Asaro, Toronto, CA;

Kevin Normoyle, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Mark Hummel, Franklin, MA (US);

Inventors:

Anthony Asaro, Toronto, CA;

Kevin Normoyle, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Mark Hummel, Franklin, MA (US);

Assignees:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

ATI Technologies ULC, Markham, Ontario, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 9/26 (2006.01); G06F 9/34 (2006.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2013.01); G06F 9/52 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a method of permitting the reordering of a visibility order of operations in a computer arrangement configured for permitting a first processor and a second processor threads to access a shared memory. The method includes receiving in a program order, a first and a second operation in a first thread and permitting the reordering of the visibility order for the operations in the shared memory based on the class of each operation. The visibility order determines the visibility in the shared memory, by a second thread, of stored results from the execution of the first and second operations.


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