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Jean
Jean

Reputation: 95

Tutorial OpenCl event handling

In my last question, OpenCl cleanup causes segfault. , somebody hinted that missing event handling, i.e. not waiting for code to finish, could cause the seg faults. Since then I looked again into the tutorials I used, but they don't pay attention to events (Matrix Multiplication 1 (OpenCL) and NVIDIA_OpenCL_GettingStartedLinux.pdf) or talk about it in detail and (for me) understandable.

Do you know a tutorial on where and how to wait in OpenCL?

Merci!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2844

Answers (1)

Steve Blackwell
Steve Blackwell

Reputation: 5924

I don't have a tutorial on events in OpenCL, and I'm by no means an expert, but since no one else is responding...

As a rule of thumb, you'll need to wait for any function named clEnqueue*. Those functions return immediately before the job is done. The easiest way to make sure your queue is finished is to call clFinish(). It won't return until the entire queue has completed.

If you want to get a little fancier, most of the clEnqueue* functions have an optional cl_event parameter that you can pass in. You can check on a particular event with clGetEventInfo(), and you can wait for a particular set of events to finish with clWaitForEvents().

Upvotes: 6

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