Mid-primitive graphics execution preemption

• Main Authors: Shah Lacky V, Hakura Ziyad S, Palmer Gregory Scott, Kirkland Dale L, Kilgariff Emmett M
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.07.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for mid-primitive execution preemption. When preemption is initiated no new instructions are issued, in-flight instructions progress to an execution unit boundary, and the execution state is unloaded from the processing pipeline. The exe...