Jaffery Watson Mendonsa & Hamilton LLP
Control flow mechanism for execution of graphics processor instructions using active channel packing
An apparatus to facilitate control flow in a graphics processing system is disclosed. The apparatus includes logic a plurality of execution units to execute single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) and flow control logic to detect a diverging control flow in a plurality of SIMD channels and reduce the execution of the control flow to a subset of the SIMD channels.
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