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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2012
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Brian Fahs, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric T. Anderson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nick Barrow-Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
Joel James McCormack, Boulder, CO (US);
Bryon S. Nordquist, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nirmal Raj Saxena, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Lacky V. Shah, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A texture processing pipeline can be configured to service memory access requests that represent texture data access operations or generic data access operations. When the texture processing pipeline receives a memory access request that represents a texture data access operation, the texture processing pipeline may retrieve texture data based on texture coordinates. When the memory access request represents a generic data access operation, the texture pipeline extracts a virtual address from the memory access request and then retrieves data based on the virtual address. The texture processing pipeline is also configured to cache generic data retrieved on behalf of a group of threads and to then invalidate that generic data when the group of threads exits.