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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Oren Ben-Kiki, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Ilan Pardo, Ramat-Hasharon, IL;
Robert Valentine, Kiryat Tivon, IL;
Eliezer Weissmann, Haifa, IL;
Dror Markovich, Tel Aviv, IL;
Yuval Yosef, Hadera, IL;
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for providing low-latency invocation of accelerators. For example, a processor according to one embodiment comprises: a command register for storing command data identifying a command to be executed; a result register to store a result of the command or data indicating a reason why the command could not be executed; execution logic to execute a plurality of instructions including an accelerator invocation instruction to invoke one or more accelerator commands; and one or more accelerators to read the command data from the command register and responsively attempt to execute the command identified by the command data.