Intel® Advisor User Guide

User Guide

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cache-simulation

Simulate device cache behavior for your application.
GUI Equivalent
Analysis Workflow
Characterization
Cache Simulation Mode

Syntax

--cache-simulation
=
<string>
Arguments
<string>
 is one of the following:
Argument
Description
off
Disable cache simulation.
single
Simulate GPU memory hierarchy behavior only for the selected target device or CPU cache behavior if no target device is selected.
multi
Simulate cache behavior for all available target devices to remodel performance without re-running the collection.
grf
Simulate general register file (GRF) behavior.
Default
off
Actions Modified
collect
=tripcounts
collect
=roofline
collect
=offload
Usage
Enabling cache simulation can increase analysis overhead.
  • Use
    off
     to decrease overhead.
  • Use
    single
     with Offload Modeling if you want to model performance for a single target device. You can use this mode for the CPU Roofline collection. This option is equivalent to
    enable-cache-simulation
    .
  • Use
    multi
     with Offload Modeling if you want to model performance for several devices or with modified memory parameters without rerunning the Characterization (Trip Count and FLOP) analysis. This option is equivalent to the
    flex-cachesim
     option (deprecated).
  • Use
    grf
     to ... This option is equivalent to the
    enable-grf-simulation
     option (deprecated).
Example
Run Characterization analysis with cache simulation enabled to model performance for all available devices. 
advisor --collect=tripcounts --flop --cache-simulation=multi --target-device=xehpg_512xve --project-dir=./advi_results -- ./myApplication

Product and Performance Information

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Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.