Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storing dynamically sized buffers within a cache
- Patent Title (中): 在缓存中存储动态大小的缓冲区
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Application No.: US12326764Application Date: 2008-12-02
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Publication No.: US08504773B1Publication Date: 2013-08-06
- Inventor: David B. Glasco , Peter B. Holmqvist , George R. Lynch , Patrick R. Marchand , James Roberts
- Applicant: David B. Glasco , Peter B. Holmqvist , George R. Lynch , Patrick R. Marchand , James Roberts
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F13/28 ; G06F9/46
Abstract:
A system and method for buffering intermediate data in a processing pipeline architecture stores the intermediate data in a shared cache that is coupled between one or more pipeline processing units and an external memory. The shared cache provides storage that is used by multiple pipeline processing units. The storage capacity of the shared cache is dynamically allocated to the different pipeline processing units as needed, to avoid stalling the upstream units, thereby improving overall system throughput.
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