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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2010
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Brett W. Coon, San Jose, CA (US);
Jered Wierzbicki, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert J. Stoll, Los Altos, CA (US);
Stuart F. Oberman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Brett W. Coon, San Jose, CA (US);
Jered Wierzbicki, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert J. Stoll, Los Altos, CA (US);
Stuart F. Oberman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for ensuring cache access instructions are scheduled for execution in a multi-threaded system to improve cache locality and system performance. A credit-based technique may be used to control instruction by instruction scheduling for each warp in a group so that the group of warps is processed uniformly. A credit is computed for each warp and the credit contributes to a weight for each warp. The weight is used to select instructions for the warps that are issued for execution.