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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2015
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Oldcorn, Fleet, GB;
Timour T. Paltashev, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for allocating commands in processing is disclosed. The system and method includes an application running on a computer system that provides commands to be executed on one of a plurality of processors capable of executing the commands, the commands provided through an application programming interface, a device driver that buffers the streamed commands and converts the streamed commands into a format used by a GPU, and an operating system that builds a command buffer by grouping a plurality of converted commands based on an allocation for an available processor, wherein the available processor is determined in the interface between the device driver and the operating system. The available processor is one of the plurality of processors capable of executing the commands that receives the command buffer from the operating system, queues the command buffer and performs an asynchronous submission of the command buffer to the GPU, and the GPU executes the command buffer.