Managing state information for a multi-threaded processor

Details Managing state information for a multi-threaded processor Managing state information for a multi-threaded processor

2005-12-19

2011-12-06

An, Meng (Department: 2195)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac

Task management or control

Process scheduling

C718S106000, C712S020000, C712S031000, C712S034000, C712S215000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08074224

ABSTRACT:
Embodiments of the present invention facilitate dynamically adapting to state information changes in a graphics processing environment. In one embodiment, a master register holds state information corresponding to units of work (threads) to be performed. The state information in the master register is copied to a per-group state register when a group of threads is to be launched. The per-group state register is coupled to processing engines configured to process the threads, so that the processing engines read state information from the per-group state register rather than the master register. In another embodiment, a number of master registers may be used to store state information for different types of threads.

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