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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeffrey Alan Bolz, Austin, TX (US);
Patrick R. Brown, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Tyson Bergland, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Lev Minkin, Los Altos, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for redistributing multi-sample processing workloads between threads. A workload for a plurality of multi-sample pixels is received and each thread in a parallel thread group is associated with a corresponding multi-sample pixel of the plurality of pixels. The workload is redistributed between the threads in the parallel thread group based on a characteristic of the workload and the workload is processed by the parallel thread group. In one embodiment, the characteristic is rasterized coverage information for the plurality of multi-sample pixels.