CUDA_OCCUPANCY (3)

NAME

Occupancy -

Functions

CUresult cuOccupancyMaxActiveBlocksPerMultiprocessor (int *numBlocks, CUfunction func, int blockSize, size_t dynamicSMemSize)
Returns occupancy of a function.
CUresult cuOccupancyMaxActiveBlocksPerMultiprocessorWithFlags (int *numBlocks, CUfunction func, int blockSize, size_t dynamicSMemSize, unsigned int flags)
Returns occupancy of a function.
CUresult cuOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSize (int *minGridSize, int *blockSize, CUfunction func, CUoccupancyB2DSize blockSizeToDynamicSMemSize, size_t dynamicSMemSize, int blockSizeLimit)
Suggest a launch configuration with reasonable occupancy.
CUresult cuOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSizeWithFlags (int *minGridSize, int *blockSize, CUfunction func, CUoccupancyB2DSize blockSizeToDynamicSMemSize, size_t dynamicSMemSize, int blockSizeLimit, unsigned int flags)
Suggest a launch configuration with reasonable occupancy.

Detailed Description

\brief occupancy calculation functions of the low-level CUDA driver API (cuda.h)

This section describes the occupancy calculation functions of the low-level CUDA driver application programming interface.

Function Documentation

CUresult cuOccupancyMaxActiveBlocksPerMultiprocessor (int * numBlocks, CUfunction func, int blockSize, size_t dynamicSMemSize)

Returns in *numBlocks the number of the maximum active blocks per streaming multiprocessor.

Parameters:

numBlocks - Returned occupancy
func - Kernel for which occupancy is calculated
blockSize - Block size the kernel is intended to be launched with
dynamicSMemSize - Per-block dynamic shared memory usage intended, in bytes

Returns:

CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

CUresult cuOccupancyMaxActiveBlocksPerMultiprocessorWithFlags (int * numBlocks, CUfunction func, int blockSize, size_t dynamicSMemSize, unsigned int flags)

Returns in *numBlocks the number of the maximum active blocks per streaming multiprocessor.

The Flags parameter controls how special cases are handled. The valid flags are:

*

CU_OCCUPANCY_DEFAULT, which maintains the default behavior as cuOccupancyMaxActiveBlocksPerMultiprocessor;

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CU_OCCUPANCY_DISABLE_CACHING_OVERRIDE, which suppresses the default behavior on platform where global caching affects occupancy. On such platforms, if caching is enabled, but per-block SM resource usage would result in zero occupancy, the occupancy calculator will calculate the occupancy as if caching is disabled. Setting CU_OCCUPANCY_DISABLE_CACHING_OVERRIDE makes the occupancy calculator to return 0 in such cases. More information can be found about this feature in the 'Unified L1/Texture Cache' section of the Maxwell tuning guide.

Parameters:

numBlocks - Returned occupancy
func - Kernel for which occupancy is calculated
blockSize - Block size the kernel is intended to be launched with
dynamicSMemSize - Per-block dynamic shared memory usage intended, in bytes
flags - Requested behavior for the occupancy calculator

Returns:

CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

CUresult cuOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSize (int * minGridSize, int * blockSize, CUfunction func, CUoccupancyB2DSize blockSizeToDynamicSMemSize, size_t dynamicSMemSize, int blockSizeLimit)

Returns in *blockSize a reasonable block size that can achieve the maximum occupancy (or, the maximum number of active warps with the fewest blocks per multiprocessor), and in *minGridSize the minimum grid size to achieve the maximum occupancy.

If blockSizeLimit is 0, the configurator will use the maximum block size permitted by the device / function instead.

If per-block dynamic shared memory allocation is not needed, the user should leave both blockSizeToDynamicSMemSize and dynamicSMemSize as 0.

If per-block dynamic shared memory allocation is needed, then if the dynamic shared memory size is constant regardless of block size, the size should be passed through dynamicSMemSize, and blockSizeToDynamicSMemSize should be NULL.

Otherwise, if the per-block dynamic shared memory size varies with different block sizes, the user needs to provide a unary function through blockSizeToDynamicSMemSize that computes the dynamic shared memory needed by func for any given block size. dynamicSMemSize is ignored. An example signature is:

    // Take block size, returns dynamic shared memory needed
    size_t blockToSmem(int blockSize);

Parameters:

minGridSize - Returned minimum grid size needed to achieve the maximum occupancy
blockSize - Returned maximum block size that can achieve the maximum occupancy
func - Kernel for which launch configuration is calculated
blockSizeToDynamicSMemSize - A function that calculates how much per-block dynamic shared memory func uses based on the block size
dynamicSMemSize - Dynamic shared memory usage intended, in bytes
blockSizeLimit - The maximum block size func is designed to handle

Returns:

CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

CUresult cuOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSizeWithFlags (int * minGridSize, int * blockSize, CUfunction func, CUoccupancyB2DSize blockSizeToDynamicSMemSize, size_t dynamicSMemSize, int blockSizeLimit, unsigned int flags)

An extended version of cuOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSize. In addition to arguments passed to cuOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSize, cuOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSizeWithFlags also takes a Flags parameter.

The Flags parameter controls how special cases are handled. The valid flags are:

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CU_OCCUPANCY_DEFAULT, which maintains the default behavior as cuOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSize;

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CU_OCCUPANCY_DISABLE_CACHING_OVERRIDE, which suppresses the default behavior on platform where global caching affects occupancy. On such platforms, the launch configurations that produces maximal occupancy might not support global caching. Setting CU_OCCUPANCY_DISABLE_CACHING_OVERRIDE guarantees that the the produced launch configuration is global caching compatible at a potential cost of occupancy. More information can be found about this feature in the 'Unified L1/Texture Cache' section of the Maxwell tuning guide.

Parameters:

minGridSize - Returned minimum grid size needed to achieve the maximum occupancy
blockSize - Returned maximum block size that can achieve the maximum occupancy
func - Kernel for which launch configuration is calculated
blockSizeToDynamicSMemSize - A function that calculates how much per-block dynamic shared memory func uses based on the block size
dynamicSMemSize - Dynamic shared memory usage intended, in bytes
blockSizeLimit - The maximum block size func is designed to handle
flags - Options

Returns:

CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

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