US 12,450,159 B1
Unified virtual memory management in heterogeneous computing systems
Weixi Zhu, Houston, TX (US); and Guilherme Cox, Saratoga, CA (US)
Assigned to NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/610,153.
Application 18/610,153 is a continuation of application No. 17/868,668, filed on Jul. 19, 2022, granted, now 11,977,489.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/223,393, filed on Jul. 19, 2021.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 12/0864 (2016.01); G06F 12/0891 (2016.01)
CPC G06F 12/0864 (2013.01) [G06F 12/0891 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving an instruction to remap a virtual memory address from a first physical memory address associated with a first processor to a second physical memory address associated with a second processor; and
remapping, using a memory management unit (MMU), the virtual memory address without moving data stored at the first physical memory address.