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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2015
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yunjiu Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Green, Folsom, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06T 2200/28 (2013.01); G06T 2210/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment described herein, a graphics engine with shader unit thread load balancing functionality executes shader instructions from multiple execution threads in a smaller number of execution threads by combining instructions from multiple threads at runtime. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit threads containing less than a minimum number of instructions are combined to minimize the discrepancy between the shortest and longest thread. In one embodiment, threads are merged when they contain a common output register.