Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Divergent control flow for fused EUs
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Application No.: US15190663Application Date: 2016-06-23
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Publication No.: US10699362B2Publication Date: 2020-06-30
- Inventor: Pratik J. Ashar , Guei-Yuan Ken Lueh , Kaiyu Chen , Subramaniam Maiyuran , Brent A. Schwartz , Darin M. Starkey
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Jaffery Watson Mendonsa & Hamilton LLP
- Main IPC: G06T1/20
- IPC: G06T1/20 ; G06F9/38 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F9/455

Abstract:
Embodiments provide support for divergent control flow in heterogeneous compute operations on a fused execution unit. On embodiment provides for a processing apparatus comprising a fused execution unit including multiple graphics execution units having a common instruction pointer; logic to serialize divergent function calls by the fused execution unit, the logic configured to compare a call target of execution channels within the fused execution unit and create multiple groups of channels, each group of channels associated with a single call target; and wherein the fused execution unit is to execute a first group of channels via a first execution unit and a second group of channels via a second execution unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170372446A1 Divergent Control Flow for Fused EUs Public/Granted day:2017-12-28
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