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by hughw 244 days ago
The shared memory architecture doesn't eliminate copying the data across to the device. Edit: or back.
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yogishbaliga 244 days ago
If it is unified memory, CPU can access the result of GPU processing without copying it to CPU memory (theoretically)
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hughw 244 days ago
If the CPU touches an address mapped to the GPU doesn't it fault a page into the CPU address space? I mean the program doesn't do anything special, but a page gets faulted in I believe.
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