Intel® Advisor User Guide

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Enforce Offloading for Specific Loops

Model performance on a target device for specific loops only even if they are not profitable.
If you want to check offload profitability only for specific loops or if your loop of interest is reported as not recommended for offloading to an accelerator, you can model performance only for these loops and ignore all other loops.
Note
: In the commands below, make sure to replace the
myApplication
 with your application executable path and name
before
 executing a command. If your application requires additional command line options, add them
after
 the executable name.
To do this:
  1. Collect baseline performance data. For example, run the Survey and Characterization analyses: 
    advisor --collect=survey --static-instruction-mix --project-dir=./advi_results -- ./myApplication
    advisor --collect=tripcounts --flop --stacks --enable-cache-simulation --target-device=xehpg_512xve --project-dir=./advi_results -- ./myApplication
  2. Rerun performance modeling for selected loops/functions only. For example: 
    advisor --collect=projection --select=foo.cpp:34,bar.cpp:192 --enforce-offload --project-dir=./advi_results
    where:
    • --select
       lists loops/functions to analyze by file and line number, loop/function ID, or criteria.
    • --enforce-offloads
      models performance for all selected loops/functions even if offloading their child loops/functions is more profitable.
View the
Offload Modeling
 results in the
Intel® Advisor
 GUI or view an HTML report. The results will show performance estimated for the selected loops/functions only.
Run Offload Modeling Perspective from Command Line
advisor Command Option Reference
Offload Modeling Command Line Reference

Product and Performance Information

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