FACILITATING EFFICIENT GRAPHICS COMMAND GENERATION AND EXECUTION FOR IMPROVED GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE AT COMPUTING DEVICES

• US 20160364829A1
• Filed: 06/12/2015
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: APODACA, MICHAEL, CIMINI, DAVID M.
• Granted Patent: US 9,916,634 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/38 Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/20 Processor architectures; Processor configuration, e.g. pipelining

Abstract

A mechanism is described for facilitating efficient graphics command generation and execution for improved graphics performance at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting an application programming interface (API) call to perform a plurality of transactions, where the API call is issued by an application at a first command buffer, where the plurality of transactions include a first set of transactions and a second set of transactions. The method may further include creating a second command buffer and appending the second command buffer to the first command buffer, where creating further includes separating the first set transactions from the second set of transactions. The method may further include executing, via the second command buffer, the first set of transactions, prior to executing the first set of transactions.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

reception/detection logic to detect an application programming interface (API) call to perform a plurality of transactions, wherein the API call is issued by an application at a first command buffer, wherein the plurality of transactions include a first set of transactions and a second set of transactions;

patch phase logic to create a second command buffer and append the second command buffer to the first command buffer, wherein the patch phase logic is further to separate the first set transactions from the second set of transactions; and

application/execution logic to execute, via the second command buffer, the first set of transactions, prior to executing the first set of transactions.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the patch phase logic is further to issue a patch execution command to facilitate the application/execution logic to execute the first set of transactions, prior to executing the first set of transactions.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising submit phase logic to issue a submit execution command to facilitate the application/execution logic to execute the second set of transactions upon completion of the execution of the first set of transactions.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the application/execution logic to execute the second set of transactions, upon completion of the execution of the first set of transactions.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first set of transactions comprise patch transactions relating to one or more patch processes including compute shading of graphics contents, wherein the second set of transactions comprise submit transactions relating to one or more submit processes including three-dimensional (3D) rendering of graphics contents.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the patch phase logic is further to maintain the second command buffer to remain open for one or more API calls to be subsequently issued by the application, wherein the second command buffer is used for executing additional transactions relating to the one or more API calls.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the reception/detection logic is further to detect a barrier API call, wherein the barrier API call to requisite graphics processing unit (GPU) resources for other processes.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein in response to the barrier API call, the application/execution logic is further to terminate the second command buffer to relinquish the GPU resources for the other processes.

9. A method comprising:

detecting an application programming interface (API) call to perform a plurality of transactions, wherein the API call is issued by an application at a first command buffer, wherein the plurality of transactions include a first set of transactions and a second set of transactions;

creating a second command buffer and appending the second command buffer to the first command buffer, wherein creating further includes separating the first set transactions from the second set of transactions; and

executing, via the second command buffer, the first set of transactions, prior to executing the first set of transactions.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising issuing a patch execution command to execute the first set of transactions, prior to executing the first set of transactions.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising issuing a submit execution command to execute the second set of transactions upon completion of the execution of the first set of transactions.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising executing the second set of transactions, upon completion of the execution of the first set of transactions.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the first set of transactions comprise patch transactions relating to one or more patch processes including compute shading of graphics contents, wherein the second set of transactions comprise submit transactions relating to one or more submit processes including three-dimensional (3D) rendering of graphics contents.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising maintaining the second command buffer to remain open for one or more API calls to be subsequently issued by the application, wherein the second command buffer is used for executing additional transactions relating to the one or more API calls.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising detecting a barrier API call, wherein the barrier API call to requisite graphics processing unit (GPU) resources for other processes.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein in response to the barrier API call, terminating the second command buffer to relinquish the GPU resources for the other processes.

17. At least one machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions, executed on a computing device, to facilitate the computing device to perform one or more operations comprising:

detecting an application programming interface (API) call to perform a plurality of transactions, wherein the API call is issued by an application at a first command buffer, wherein the plurality of transactions include a first set of transactions and a second set of transactions;

creating a second command buffer and appending the second command buffer to the first command buffer, wherein creating further includes separating the first set transactions from the second set of transactions; and

executing, via the second command buffer, the first set of transactions, prior to executing the first set of transactions.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more operations further comprise issuing a patch execution command to execute the first set of transactions, prior to executing the first set of transactions.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more operations further comprise issuing a submit execution command to execute the second set of transactions upon completion of the execution of the first set of transactions.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the one or more operations further comprise executing the second set of transactions, upon completion of the execution of the first set of transactions.

21. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the first set of transactions comprise patch transactions relating to one or more patch processes including compute shading of graphics contents, wherein the second set of transactions comprise submit transactions relating to one or more submit processes including three-dimensional (3D) rendering of graphics contents.

22. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more operations further comprise maintaining the second command buffer to remain open for one or more API calls to be subsequently issued by the application, wherein the second command buffer is used for executing additional transactions relating to the one or more API calls.

23. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the one or more operations further comprise detecting a barrier API call, wherein the barrier API call to requisite graphics processing unit (GPU) resources for other processes.

24. The machine-readable medium of claim 23, wherein in response to the barrier API call, terminating the second command buffer to relinquish the GPU resources for the other processes.