Intel® Advisor User Guide

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reduce-task-overhead

Examine specified annotated sites for opportunities to reduce task overhead in a Suitability report.
GUI Equivalent
Suitability
Task Overhead

Syntax

--reduce-task-overhead
=
<string>
Arguments
<string>
 is a comma-separated list of sites (no spaces).
Default
No default argument
Actions Modified
report
=suitability
Usage
Task overhead is the time spent creating a task, assigning it to a thread, and stopping or pausing the thread when the task is complete.
Usage of this option simulates parallel execution with the assumption that task overhead is zero for a specified site.
Example
Generate a Suitability report. Examine the annotated sites
myAnnotatedSiteJ
 and
myAnnotatedSiteX
 for opportunities to reduce task overhead. Write the report to
stdout.
advisor --report=suitability --reduce-task-overhead=myAnnotatedSiteJ,myAnnotatedSiteX --project-dir=./advi_results

Product and Performance Information

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