Direct memory access (DMA) is provided in a computing system that includes a central processing unit (CPU), CPU memory associated with the CPU, a graphics processing unit (GPU), GPU memory associated with the GPU, a storage device capable of direct memory access, and a peer-to-peer host bus to which the other components are electrically coupled, directly or indirectly. For each page of the GPU physical memory, a data structure representing the page of GPU physical memory is generated, a GPU virtual memory space is allocated, the GPU virtual memory space is mapped to a GPU physical memory space. Based on the data structure representing the page of GPU physical memory, the GPU physical memory space is mapped to a CPU virtual address associated with a user-space process. A direct input/output operation on the storage device is initiated using the CPU virtual address, which is mapped to the GPU physical memory, at least a bus address is generated based on the data structure representing the page of GPU physical memory, and a DMA operation is initiated based on the bus address to transfer data between the storage device and the GPU physical memory space through the peer-to-peer host bus without copying the data to the CPU memory.


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    Title :

    DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS FOR CO-PROCESSOR MEMORY


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    Publication date :

    2019-01-03


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL / B60W CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION , Gemeinsame Steuerung oder Regelung von Fahrzeug-Unteraggregaten verschiedenen Typs oder verschiedener Funktion / G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / G06F ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING , Elektrische digitale Datenverarbeitung



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