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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2011
Sean J. Treichler, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lacky V. Shah, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Daniel Elliot Wexler, Soda Springs, CA (US);
Sean J. Treichler, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lacky V. Shah, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Daniel Elliot Wexler, Soda Springs, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for receiving versions of state objects at one or more stages in a processing pipeline. The method includes receiving a first version of a state object at a first stage in the processing pipeline, determining that the first version of the state object is relevant to the first stage, incrementing a first reference counter associated with the first version of the state object, assigning the first version of the state object to work requests that arrive at the first stage subsequent to the receipt of the first version of the state object, and transmitting the first version of the state object to a second stage in the processing pipeline.