NON-VOLATILE STORAGE FOR GRAPHICS HARDWARE

摘要

Methods and systems may provide for an apparatus having a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a non-volatile memory dedicated to the GPU. If a request for content is detected, a determination may be made as to whether the non-volatile memory contains the content.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a host device having a central processing unit to execute an application; a graphics processing unit; a non-volatile memory dedicated to the graphics processing unit; a volatile memory dedicated to the graphics processing unit; and a computer readable storage medium including a set of stored instructions which, if executed by a processor, cause the system to:
detect a request for content from the application;determine whether the non-volatile memory contains the content;allocate a buffer resource to the content if the non-volatile memory contains the content;return an identifier of the buffer resource to the host device;transfer the content to the buffer resource if an optimization criterion based on one or more of a reordering of work flow, an optimization of a file system for streamlining loads, or an optimization of a batching of read/write requests is met, and detect a request for further content from the application if the optimization criterion is not met; andtransfer the content from the buffer resource to the volatile memory via a direct memory access request.