Analyzing OpenCL™ Kernel Performance

Developer Guide for Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2017

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Date 10/22/2018

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To analyze OpenCL™ kernel performance with the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications Standalone Version, do the following:

Click the Analyze button.
Click Refresh kernel(s) to get the list of kernels in the currently open *.cl file.
Select the target kernel from pull-down menu. If only one kernel is available, it is selected by default.
Click cells in the Assigned Variables column to create or add variables as kernel arguments. You can assign one-dimensional variables (such as integer, float, char, half, and so on) on-the-fly by typing single values into the table. See section "Creating Variables" for details.
Set number of iterations, global size and local sizes per workload dimension in the Workgroup size definitions group box.
Click Analyze to wrap a specific kernel and execute analyses.

You can use the local size(s) text boxes for several different test configurations:

Set single size value for a single test.
Add several comma-separated sizes for multiple tests.
Set 0 to utilize the default framework-assigned local size.
Click Auto to enable the tool iterate on all sizes that are smaller than global size and device maximum local size.

Also consider the following:

Using each option is available for each dimension.
To analyze the kernel in its designed conditions, set a single value.
To find the local size that provides higher performance results, click Auto or set a list of comma-separated values.
To improve the analysis accuracy, run each global and local work size combination several times by increasing the Number of iterations value. Several iterations minimize the impact of other system processes or tasks on the kernel execution time.
Use the Device Information dialog to compare device properties and choose the appropriate device for the kernel.
When running analysis on Experimental OpenCL 2.1 Platform, you may use local WG size as described in OpenCL 2.0 specification
- Local work-group size doesn't have to be a divisor of the global WG size.
- When choosing "auto", all global work-group size devisors and all powers of 2 smaller than the global work-group size ran in the analysis.