MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517093438 A) filed by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, U.S.A., on Sept. 29, for 'advanced hardware scheduling using unmapped-queue doorbells.'

Inventor(s) include Ashkar, Alexander Fuad; Greathouse, Joseph L; and Rastogi, Manu.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A processing device [100] includes a hardware scheduler [232], an unmapped queue unit [236], a command processor [234], and a plurality of compute units [246]. Responsive to a queue doorbell [401] being an unmapped queue doorbell, the unmapped queue unit is configured to transmit a signal to the hardware scheduler indicating work has been placed into a queue currently unmapped to a hardware queue of the processing device. The hardware scheduler is configured to map the queue to a hardware queue [240] of a plurality of hardware queues at the processing device in response to the signal. The command processor is configured to dispatch the work associated with the mapped queue to one or more compute units of the plurality of compute units."

The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 15, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/020106.

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