SMART OPTIMIZATION OF UNUSED GRAPHICS BUFFER MEMORY IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20170213314A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-27

    申请号:US15080358

    申请日:2016-03-24

    CPC classification number: G06T1/60 G06F3/0604 G06F3/0631 G06F3/0656 G06F3/0673

    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating smart optimization of unused graphics buffer memory in computing environments. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting a software application at a computing device, where the software application to place a request for a task capable of being executed by a processor of the computing device. The method may further include allocating a composition of buffers and facilitate allocation of physical memory to the buffers to be used to perform the task, where a first portion of the physical memory and a second portion of the physical memory are allocated to first one or more of the buffers and second one or more of the buffers, respectively. The method may further include purging first one or more of the buffers, if the first one or more of the buffers are determined to be unused for the task, where purging includes disallowing commitment of the first portion of the physical memory to the first one or more of the buffers such that the first portion of the physical memory remains available for other tasks despite being allocated to the first one or more of the buffers.

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