Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ Pro Edition: Best Practices Guide

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Date 10/04/2021
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5.7.2. Stalling Channels

Channels provide a point-to-point communication link between either two kernels, or between a kernel and an I/O channel. If an I/O channel stalls, it implies that the I/O channel cannot keep up with the kernel.

For example, if a kernel has a read channel call to an Ethernet I/O and the Profiler identifies a stall, it implies that the write channel is not writing data to the Ethernet I/O at the same rate as the read rate of the kernel.

For kernel-to-kernel channels, stalls occur if there is an imbalance between the read and write sides of the channel, or if the read and write kernels are not running concurrently.

For example, if the kernel that reads is not launched concurrently with the kernel that writes, or if the read operations occur much slower than the write operations, the Profiler identifies a stall for the write_channel_intel call in the write kernel.