StarPU Handbook
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Data Structures | |
struct | starpu_driver |
union | starpu_driver.id |
struct | starpu_conf |
Functions | |
int | starpu_init (struct starpu_conf *conf) STARPU_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT |
int | starpu_initialize (struct starpu_conf *user_conf, int *argc, char ***argv) |
int | starpu_conf_init (struct starpu_conf *conf) |
void | starpu_shutdown (void) |
void | starpu_pause (void) |
void | starpu_resume (void) |
int | starpu_asynchronous_copy_disabled (void) |
int | starpu_asynchronous_cuda_copy_disabled (void) |
int | starpu_asynchronous_opencl_copy_disabled (void) |
int | starpu_asynchronous_mic_copy_disabled (void) |
void | starpu_topology_print (FILE *f) |
struct starpu_driver |
structure for a driver
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enum starpu_worker_archtype | type |
The type of the driver. Only STARPU_CPU_WORKER, STARPU_CUDA_WORKER and STARPU_OPENCL_WORKER are currently supported. |
union starpu_driver | id |
The identifier of the driver. |
struct starpu_conf |
This structure is passed to the starpu_init() function in order to configure StarPU. It has to be initialized with starpu_conf_init(). When the default value is used, StarPU automatically selects the number of processing units and takes the default scheduling policy. The environment variables overwrite the equivalent parameters.
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int | magic |
Will be initialized by starpu_conf_init(). Should not be set by hand. |
const char * | sched_policy_name |
This is the name of the scheduling policy. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_SCHED. (default = NULL). |
struct starpu_sched_policy * | sched_policy |
This is the definition of the scheduling policy. This field is ignored if starpu_conf::sched_policy_name is set. (default = NULL) |
int | ncpus |
This is the number of CPU cores that StarPU can use. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_NCPU . (default = -1) |
int | ncuda |
This is the number of CUDA devices that StarPU can use. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_NCUDA. (default = -1) |
int | nopencl |
This is the number of OpenCL devices that StarPU can use. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_NOPENCL. (default = -1) |
int | nmic |
This is the number of MIC devices that StarPU can use. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_NMIC. (default = -1) |
int | nscc |
This is the number of SCC devices that StarPU can use. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_NSCC. (default = -1) |
unsigned | use_explicit_workers_bindid |
If this flag is set, the starpu_conf::workers_bindid array indicates where the different workers are bound, otherwise StarPU automatically selects where to bind the different workers. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_WORKERS_CPUID. (default = 0) |
unsigned | workers_bindid[STARPU_NMAXWORKERS] |
If the starpu_conf::use_explicit_workers_bindid flag is set, this array indicates where to bind the different workers. The i-th entry of the starpu_conf::workers_bindid indicates the logical identifier of the processor which should execute the i-th worker. Note that the logical ordering of the CPUs is either determined by the OS, or provided by the hwloc library in case it is available. |
unsigned | use_explicit_workers_cuda_gpuid |
If this flag is set, the CUDA workers will be attached to the CUDA devices specified in the starpu_conf::workers_cuda_gpuid array. Otherwise, StarPU affects the CUDA devices in a round-robin fashion. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_WORKERS_CUDAID. (default = 0) |
unsigned | workers_cuda_gpuid[STARPU_NMAXWORKERS] |
If the starpu_conf::use_explicit_workers_cuda_gpuid flag is set, this array contains the logical identifiers of the CUDA devices (as used by cudaGetDevice()). |
unsigned | use_explicit_workers_opencl_gpuid |
If this flag is set, the OpenCL workers will be attached to the OpenCL devices specified in the starpu_conf::workers_opencl_gpuid array. Otherwise, StarPU affects the OpenCL devices in a round-robin fashion. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_WORKERS_OPENCLID. (default = 0) |
unsigned | workers_opencl_gpuid[STARPU_NMAXWORKERS] |
If the starpu_conf::use_explicit_workers_opencl_gpuid flag is set, this array contains the logical identifiers of the OpenCL devices to be used. |
unsigned | use_explicit_workers_mic_deviceid |
If this flag is set, the MIC workers will be attached to the MIC devices specified in the array starpu_conf::workers_mic_deviceid. Otherwise, StarPU affects the MIC devices in a round-robin fashion. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_WORKERS_MICID. (default = 0) |
unsigned | workers_mic_deviceid[STARPU_NMAXWORKERS] |
If the flag starpu_conf::use_explicit_workers_mic_deviceid is set, the array contains the logical identifiers of the MIC devices to be used. |
unsigned | use_explicit_workers_scc_deviceid |
If this flag is set, the SCC workers will be attached to the SCC devices specified in the array starpu_conf::workers_scc_deviceid. (default = 0) |
unsigned | workers_scc_deviceid[STARPU_NMAXWORKERS] |
If the flag starpu_conf::use_explicit_workers_scc_deviceid is set, the array contains the logical identifiers of the SCC devices to be used. Otherwise, StarPU affects the SCC devices in a round-robin fashion. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_WORKERS_SCCID. |
int | bus_calibrate |
If this flag is set, StarPU will recalibrate the bus. If this value is equal to |
int | calibrate |
If this flag is set, StarPU will calibrate the performance models when executing tasks. If this value is equal to |
int | single_combined_worker |
By default, StarPU executes parallel tasks concurrently. Some parallel libraries (e.g. most OpenMP implementations) however do not support concurrent calls to parallel code. In such case, setting this flag makes StarPU only start one parallel task at a time (but other CPU and GPU tasks are not affected and can be run concurrently). The parallel task scheduler will however still try varying combined worker sizes to look for the most efficient ones. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_SINGLE_COMBINED_WORKER. (default = 0) |
char * | mic_sink_program_path |
Path to the kernel to execute on the MIC device, compiled for MIC architecture. When set to NULL, StarPU automatically looks next to the host program location. (default = NULL) |
int | disable_asynchronous_copy |
This flag should be set to 1 to disable asynchronous copies between CPUs and all accelerators. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_DISABLE_ASYNCHRONOUS_COPY. The AMD implementation of OpenCL is known to fail when copying data asynchronously. When using this implementation, it is therefore necessary to disable asynchronous data transfers. This can also be specified at compilation time by giving to the configure script the option --disable-asynchronous-copy. (default = 0) |
int | disable_asynchronous_cuda_copy |
This flag should be set to 1 to disable asynchronous copies between CPUs and CUDA accelerators. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_DISABLE_ASYNCHRONOUS_CUDA_COPY. This can also be specified at compilation time by giving to the configure script the option --disable-asynchronous-cuda-copy. (default = 0) |
int | disable_asynchronous_opencl_copy |
This flag should be set to 1 to disable asynchronous copies between CPUs and OpenCL accelerators. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_DISABLE_ASYNCHRONOUS_OPENCL_COPY. The AMD implementation of OpenCL is known to fail when copying data asynchronously. When using this implementation, it is therefore necessary to disable asynchronous data transfers. This can also be specified at compilation time by giving to the configure script the option --disable-asynchronous-opencl-copy. (default = 0) |
int | disable_asynchronous_mic_copy |
This flag should be set to 1 to disable asynchronous copies between CPUs and MIC accelerators. This can also be specified with the environment variable STARPU_DISABLE_ASYNCHRONOUS_MIC_COPY. This can also be specified at compilation time by giving to the configure script the option --disable-asynchronous-mic-copy. (default = 0). |
unsigned * | cuda_opengl_interoperability |
Enable CUDA/OpenGL interoperation on these CUDA devices. This can be set to an array of CUDA device identifiers for which cudaGLSetGLDevice() should be called instead of cudaSetDevice(). Its size is specified by the starpu_conf::n_cuda_opengl_interoperability field below (default = NULL) |
unsigned | n_cuda_opengl_interoperability |
todo |
struct starpu_driver * | not_launched_drivers |
Array of drivers that should not be launched by StarPU. The application will run in one of its own threads. (default = NULL) |
unsigned | n_not_launched_drivers |
The number of StarPU drivers that should not be launched by StarPU. (default = 0) |
unsigned | trace_buffer_size |
Specifies the buffer size used for FxT tracing. Starting from FxT version 0.2.12, the buffer will automatically be flushed when it fills in, but it may still be interesting to specify a bigger value to avoid any flushing (which would disturb the trace). |
int | global_sched_ctx_min_priority | |
int | global_sched_ctx_max_priority |
int starpu_init | ( | struct starpu_conf * | conf | ) |
This is StarPU initialization method, which must be called prior to any other StarPU call. It is possible to specify StarPU’s configuration (e.g. scheduling policy, number of cores, ...) by passing a non-null argument. Default configuration is used if the passed argument is NULL. Upon successful completion, this function returns 0. Otherwise, -ENODEV indicates that no worker was available (so that StarPU was not initialized).
int starpu_initialize | ( | struct starpu_conf * | user_conf, |
int * | argc, | ||
char *** | argv | ||
) |
This is the same as starpu_init(), but also takes the argc
and argv
as defined by the application. This is needed for SCC execution to initialize the communication library. Do not call starpu_init() and starpu_initialize() in the same program.
int starpu_conf_init | ( | struct starpu_conf * | conf | ) |
This function initializes the conf structure passed as argument with the default values. In case some configuration parameters are already specified through environment variables, starpu_conf_init() initializes the fields of the structure according to the environment variables. For instance if STARPU_CALIBRATE is set, its value is put in the field starpu_conf::calibrate of the structure passed as argument. Upon successful completion, this function returns 0. Otherwise, -EINVAL indicates that the argument was NULL.
void starpu_shutdown | ( | void | ) |
This is StarPU termination method. It must be called at the end of the application: statistics and other post-mortem debugging information are not guaranteed to be available until this method has been called.
void starpu_pause | ( | void | ) |
This call is used to suspend the processing of new tasks by workers. It can be used in a program where StarPU is used during only a part of the execution. Without this call, the workers continue to poll for new tasks in a tight loop, wasting CPU time. The symmetric call to starpu_resume() should be used to unfreeze the workers.
void starpu_resume | ( | void | ) |
This is the symmetrical call to starpu_pause(), used to resume the workers polling for new tasks.
int starpu_asynchronous_copy_disabled | ( | void | ) |
Return 1 if asynchronous data transfers between CPU and accelerators are disabled.
int starpu_asynchronous_cuda_copy_disabled | ( | void | ) |
Return 1 if asynchronous data transfers between CPU and CUDA accelerators are disabled.
int starpu_asynchronous_opencl_copy_disabled | ( | void | ) |
Return 1 if asynchronous data transfers between CPU and OpenCL accelerators are disabled.
int starpu_asynchronous_mic_copy_disabled | ( | void | ) |
Return 1 if asynchronous data transfers between CPU and MIC devices are disabled.
void starpu_topology_print | ( | FILE * | f | ) |
Prints a description of the topology on f.