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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2012
Samuel H. Duncan, Arlington, MA (US);
Dennis K. MA, Austin, TX (US);
Wei-je Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Gary Ward, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Samuel H. Duncan, Arlington, MA (US);
Dennis K. Ma, Austin, TX (US);
Wei-Je Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Gary Ward, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Non-contiguous or tiled payload data are efficiently transferred between peers over a fabric. Specifically, a client transfers a byte enable message to a peer device via a mailbox mechanism, where the byte enable message specifies which bytes of the payload data being transferred via the data packet are to be written to the frame buffer on the peer device and which bytes are not to be written. The client transfers the non-contiguous or tiled payload payload data to the peer device. Upon receiving the payload data, the peer device writes bytes from the payload data into the target frame buffer for only those bytes enabled via the byte enable message. One advantage of the present invention is that non-contiguous or tiled data are transferred over a fabric with improved efficiency.