Abstract: An embodiment of an integrated circuit may comprise an array of hardware counters, and circuitry communicatively coupled to the array of hardware counters, the circuitry to count accesses to one or more selected pages of a memory with the array of hardware counters. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to providing a secure address translation service. An embodiment of a system includes memory for storage of data, an IOMMU coupled to the memory, and a host-to-device link to couple the IOMMU with one or more devices and to operate as a translation agent on behalf of one or more devices in connection with memory operations relating to the memory, including receiving a translated request from a discrete device via the host-to-device link specifying a memory operation and a physical address within the memory pertaining to the memory operation, determining page access permissions assigned to a context of the discrete device for a physical page of the memory within which the physical address resides, allowing the memory operation to proceed when the page access permissions permit the memory operation, and blocking the memory operation when the page access permissions do not permit the memory operation.

Abstract: Graphics processing systems and methods are described. A graphics processing apparatus may comprise one or more graphics processing engines, a memory, a memory management unit (MMU) including a GPU second level page table and GPU dirty bit tracking, and a provisioning agent to receive a request from a virtual machine monitor (VMM) to provision a subcluster of graphics processing apparatuses, the subcluster including a plurality of graphics processing engines from a plurality of graphics processing apparatuses connected using a scale-up fabric, provision the scale-up fabric to route data within the subcluster of graphics processing apparatuses, and provision a plurality of resources on the graphics processing apparatus for the subcluster based on the request from the VMM.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor comprises: a first configuration register to store quality of service (QoS) information for a process address space identifier (PASID) value associated with a first process; and an execution circuit coupled to the first configuration register, where the execution circuit, in response to a first instruction, is to obtain command data from a first location identified in a source operand of the first instruction, insert the QoS information and the PASID value into the command data, and send a request comprising the command data to a device coupled to the processor, to enable the device to use the QoS information of a plurality of requests to manage sharing between a plurality of processes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods to skip inconsequential matrix operations. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of first source, second source, and destination matrices, the opcode indicating that the processor is to multiply each element at row M and column K of the first source matrix with a corresponding element at row K and column N of the second source matrix, and accumulate a resulting product with previous contents of a corresponding element at row M and column N of the destination matrix, the processor to skip multiplications that, based on detected values of corresponding multiplicands, would generate inconsequential results; scheduling circuitry to schedule execution of the instruction; and execution circuitry to execute the instructions as per the opcode.

Abstract: Graphics processing systems and methods are described. A graphics processing apparatus may comprise one or more graphics processing engines, a memory, a memory management unit (MMU) including a GPU second level page table and GPU dirty bit tracking, and a provisioning agent to receive a request from a virtual machine monitor (VMM) to provision a subcluster of graphics processing apparatuses, the subcluster including a plurality of graphics processing engines from a plurality of graphics processing apparatuses connected using a scale-up fabric, provision the scale-up fabric to route data within the subcluster of graphics processing apparatuses, and provision a plurality of resources on the graphics processing apparatus for the subcluster based on the request from the VMM.

Abstract: A processing device is provided. The processing device comprises an interface configured to receive information about an operation state of a surrogate processor. Further, the processing device comprises a processing circuitry configured to control the interface and to decide whether an interrupt addressed to the processing circuitry is processed by the processing circuitry or redirected to the surrogate processing circuitry based on an operation state of the processing circuitry and the surrogate processing circuitry.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multipurpose and long endurance Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (HUAV) with the combined functions of a Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) and a fixed wing operation. The HUAV may take-off and land vertically on both land and water, and perform a mid-air transition from a VTOL mode to a fixed wing mode. The HUAV includes an airframe, a fixed wing unit having at least one forward thrust motor, one or more VTOL units mounted on a tail boom, and a fuselage of the airframe. Each of the one or more VTOL units includes at least one VTOL motor, and a control unit configured to control on-board transition of the HUAV between the VTOL mode and the fixed wing mode by controlling at least one forward thrust motor and at least one VTOL motor.

Abstract: Techniques for scalable virtualization of an Input/Output (I/O) device are described. An electronic device composes a virtual device comprising one or more assignable interface (AI) instances of a plurality of AI instances of a hosting function exposed by the I/O device. The electronic device emulates device resources of the I/O device via the virtual device. The electronic device intercepts a request from the guest pertaining to the virtual device, and determines whether the request from the guest is a fast-path operation to be passed directly to one of the one or more AI instances of the I/O device or a slow-path operation that is to be at least partially serviced via software executed by the electronic device. For a slow-path operation, the electronic device services the request at least partially via the software executed by the electronic device.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing input/output extensions for trust domains are described. In one example, a hardware processor includes a hardware processor core comprising a trust domain manager to manage one or more hardware isolated virtual machines as a respective trust domain with a region of protected memory, and input/output memory management unit (IOMMU) circuitry coupled between the hardware processor core and an input/output device, wherein the IOMMU circuitry is to, for a request from the input/output device for a direct memory access of a protected memory of a trust domain, allow the direct memory access in response to a field in the request being set to indicate the input/output device is in a trusted computing base of the trust domain.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for efficient I/O page fault handling are provided. A system may include a peripheral device that accesses guest memory of a virtual machine using direct memory access (DMA) and a processing device that that runs the virtual machine. The processing device may include a buffer allocated to receive a payload from the peripheral device while an input/output page fault corresponding to a page of the guest memory is resolved. The processing device may also include an input/output page fault queue to store a descriptor corresponding to the input/output page fault and a fault buffer queue to store a descriptor corresponding to a location of the buffer allocated to receive the payload while the input/output page fault is resolved.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to dynamic capability discovery and enforcement for accelerators and devices in multi-tenant systems are described. In an embodiment, a hardware accelerator device advertises one or more available operations and/or capabilities of the hardware accelerator device to one or more tenants. Logic circuitry controls access to the one or more available operations and/or capabilities of the one or more work queues on a per-tenant basis. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Techniques for scalable virtualization of an Input/Output (I/O) device are described. An electronic device composes a virtual device comprising one or more assignable interface (AI) instances of a plurality of AI instances of a hosting function exposed by the I/O device. The electronic device emulates device resources of the I/O device via the virtual device. The electronic device intercepts a request from the guest pertaining to the virtual device, and determines whether the request from the guest is a fast-path operation to be passed directly to one of the one or more AI instances of the I/O device or a slow-path operation that is to be at least partially serviced via software executed by the electronic device. For a slow-path operation, the electronic device services the request at least partially via the software executed by the electronic device.

Abstract: An embodiment of an integrated circuit may comprise a processor with one or more cores and circuitry coupled to the one or more cores, the circuitry to control one or more interrupts based on an interrupt expansion data structure, and report information derived from the interrupt expansion data structure to a software interrupt handler. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: A processor may determine, based on a length of an input key, whether to compute a hash value based on the input key or cause an accelerator device coupled to the processor to compute the hash value based on the input key. The processor may cause a hash table lookup operation to be performed based on the hash value.

Abstract: Processors, methods, and systems for user-level interprocessor interrupts are described. In an embodiment, a processing system includes a memory and a processing core. The memory is to store an interrupt control data structure associated with a first application being executed by the processing system. The processing core includes an instruction decoder to decode a first instruction, invoked by a second application, to send an interprocessor interrupt to the first application; and, in response to the decoded instruction, is to determine that an identifier of the interprocessor interrupt matches a notification interrupt vector associated with the first application; set, in the interrupt control data structure, a pending interrupt flag corresponding to an identifier of the interprocessor interrupt; and invoke an interrupt handler for the interprocessor interrupt identified by the interrupt control data structure.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods to skip inconsequential matrix operations. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of first source, second source, and destination matrices, the opcode indicating that the processor is to multiply each element at row M and column K of the first source matrix with a corresponding element at row K and column N of the second source matrix, and accumulate a resulting product with previous contents of a corresponding element at row M and column N of the destination matrix, the processor to skip multiplications that, based on detected values of corresponding multiplicands, would generate inconsequential results; scheduling circuitry to schedule execution of the instruction; and execution circuitry to execute the instructions as per the opcode.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to performing an attachment of an input-output memory management unit (IOMMU) to a device, and a verification of the attachment. In one embodiment, a protocol and IOMMU extensions are used by a secure arbitration mode (SEAM) module and/or circuitry to determine if the IOMMU that is attached to the device requested to be mapped to a trusted domain.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for managing pipeline depth of a data processing device. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: an interface to receive a plurality of work requests from a plurality of clients; and a plurality of engines to perform the plurality of work requests; wherein the work requests are to be dispatched to the plurality of engines from a plurality of work queues, the work queues to store a work descriptor per work request, each work descriptor to include information needed to perform a corresponding work request, wherein the plurality of work queues include a first work queue to store work descriptors associated with first latency characteristics and a second work queue to store work descriptors associated with second latency characteristics; engine configuration circuitry to configure a first engine to have a first pipeline depth based on the first latency characteristics and to configure a second engine to have a second pipeline depth based on the second latency characteristics.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for high-performance page fault handling. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: one or more accelerator engines to process work descriptors submitted by clients to a plurality of work queues; fault processing hardware logic associated with the one or more accelerator engines, the fault processing hardware logic to implement a specified page fault handling mode for each work queue of the plurality of work queues, the page fault handling modes including a first page fault handling mode and a second page fault handling mode.