US 2018/0293701 A1 · APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC PROVISIONING, QUALITY OF SERVICE, AND PRIORITIZATION IN A GRAPHICS PROCESSOR

Abstract

An apparatus and method for dynamic provisioning, quality of service, and prioritization in a graphics processor. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a plurality of graphics processing resources; slice configuration hardware logic to logically subdivide the graphics processing resources into a plurality of slices; and slice allocation hardware logic to allocate a designated number of slices to each virtual machine (VM) of a plurality of VMs running in a virtualized execution environment, the slice allocation hardware logic to allocate different numbers of slices to different VMs based on graphics processing requirements and/or priorities of each of the VMs.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a plurality of graphics processing resources;
slice configuration hardware logic to logically subdivide the graphics processing resources into a plurality of slices;
and
slice allocation hardware logic to allocate a designated number of slices to each virtual machine (VM) of a plurality of VMs running in a virtualized execution environment, the slice allocation hardware logic to allocate different numbers of slices to different VMs based on graphics processing requirements and/or priorities of each of the VMs.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/482,680Filed 7 Apr 2017

Published

11 Oct 2018

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Classification11 codes

G06T 1/60
General purpose image data processing: memory management
G06F 9/45558
Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors: hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
G06F 9/4881
By program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system: scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues
G06F 9/5038
The resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals: considering the execution order of a plurality of tasks, e.g. taking priority or time…

Apparatus and method for dynamic provisioning, quality of service, and prioritization in a graphics processor

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Apparatus and method for dynamic provisioning, quality of service, and prioritization in a graphics processor

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