Conditional end of thread mechanism

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9292898
APP PUB NO 20140267272A1
SERIAL NO

13834540

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A graphics processing unit, method, computer readable media, and system are described herein. The graphics processing unit includes at least one execution unit, the execution unit configured to execute a shader. The shader includes instructions that causes the execution unit to process a plurality of pixels in parallel until each of the plurality of pixels is discarded and execution of a last write instruction, and execute a conditional end of thread instruction after each of the plurality of pixels is discarded and after execution of the last write instruction, wherein execution of the conditional end of thread instruction is to terminate the thread.

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Ossowski, Przemyslaw Chwaszczyno, PL 1 2

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