Functions

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

Returns occupancy of a function.

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

Description

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

Note:

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

See also:

cudaOccupancyMaxActiveBlocksPerMultiprocessor

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

Returns occupancy of a function.

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

Description

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;

• 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.

Note:

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

See also:

cudaOccupancyMaxActiveBlocksPerMultiprocessorWithFlags

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

Suggest a launch configuration with reasonable occupancy.

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

Description

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);

Note:

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

See also:

cudaOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSize

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.

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

Description

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:

• CU_OCCUPANCY_DEFAULT, which maintains the default behavior as cuOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSize;

• 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.

Note:

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

See also:

cudaOccupancyMaxPotentialBlockSizeWithFlags