Nvidia patents API to set processor speed based on task priority
Nvidia describes a software interface that helps computer chips decide how fast to run. The system looks at how important a task is and adjusts the processor's speed accordingly to match that priority.
In the filing’s own words
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform an application programming interface (API) to identify processor settings to be used when performing one or more software workloads. As an example, one or more processors comprising one or more circuits perform an API to identify processor settings to be used to configure processors assigned to perform a software workload based, at least in part, on one or more priority inputs to the API.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. One or more processors, comprising: circuitry to, in response to an application programming interface (API) call: identify one or more settings to be used to configure one or more processors to operate at one or more processor clock frequencies based, at least in part, on: one or more priority inputs to the API; and one or more data structures correlating the one or more priority inputs with the one or more settings comprising the one or more processor clock frequencies.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- Application programming interface to configure a processor using priority
- Patent number
- US12736998B2
- Application number
- 18632270
- Filed
- Apr 10, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
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