Patents by Inventor Johnathan R. Alsop

Johnathan R. Alsop has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Targeted per-line operations for remote scope promotion
    Patent number: 11042484
    Abstract: A processing system includes one or more first caches and one or more first lock tables associated with the one or more first caches. The processing system also includes one or more processing units that each include a plurality of compute units for concurrently executing work-groups of work items, a plurality of second caches associated with the plurality of compute units and configured in a hierarchy with the one or more first caches, and a plurality of second lock tables associated with the plurality of second caches. The first and second lock tables indicate locking states of addresses of cache lines in the corresponding first and second caches on a per-line basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Johnathan R. Alsop, Bradford Beckmann
  • TARGETED PER-LINE OPERATIONS FOR REMOTE SCOPE PROMOTION
    Publication number: 20170371784
    Abstract: A processing system includes one or more first caches and one or more first lock tables associated with the one or more first caches. The processing system also includes one or more processing units that each include a plurality of compute units for concurrently executing work-groups of work items, a plurality of second caches associated with the plurality of compute units and configured in a hierarchy with the one or more first caches, and a plurality of second lock tables associated with the plurality of second caches. The first and second lock tables indicate locking states of addresses of cache lines in the corresponding first and second caches on a per-line basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Johnathan R. Alsop, Bradford Beckmann