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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2013
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Steven James Heinrich, Madison, AL (US);
Ramesh Jandhyala, Austin, TX (US);
Bengt-Olaf Schneider, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/1621 (2013.01); G06F 12/00 (2013.01); G06F 13/1626 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1228 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for coalescing memory access requests. A plurality of memory access requests is received in a thread execution order and a portion of the memory access requests are coalesced into memory order, where memory access requests included in the portion are generated by threads in a thread block. A memory operation is generated that is transmitted to a memory system, where the memory operation represents the coalesced portion of memory access requests.