6.29. Surface Object Management

This section describes the surface object management functions of the low-level CUDA driver application programming interface. The surface object API is only supported on devices of compute capability 3.0 or higher.

Functions

CUresult cuSurfObjectCreate ( CUsurfObject* pSurfObject, const CUDA_RESOURCE_DESC* pResDesc )
Creates a surface object.
CUresult cuSurfObjectDestroy ( CUsurfObject surfObject )
Destroys a surface object.
CUresult cuSurfObjectGetResourceDesc ( CUDA_RESOURCE_DESC* pResDesc, CUsurfObject surfObject )
Returns a surface object's resource descriptor.

Functions

CUresult cuSurfObjectCreate ( CUsurfObject* pSurfObject, const CUDA_RESOURCE_DESC* pResDesc )
Creates a surface object.
Parameters
pSurfObject
- Surface object to create
pResDesc
- Resource descriptor
Description

Creates a surface object and returns it in pSurfObject. pResDesc describes the data to perform surface load/stores on. CUDA_RESOURCE_DESC::resType must be CU_RESOURCE_TYPE_ARRAY and CUDA_RESOURCE_DESC::res::array::hArray must be set to a valid CUDA array handle. CUDA_RESOURCE_DESC::flags must be set to zero.

Surface objects are only supported on devices of compute capability 3.0 or higher. Additionally, a surface object is an opaque value, and, as such, should only be accessed through CUDA API calls.

See also:

cuSurfObjectDestroy, cudaCreateSurfaceObject

CUresult cuSurfObjectDestroy ( CUsurfObject surfObject )
Destroys a surface object.
Parameters
surfObject
- Surface object to destroy
Description

Destroys the surface object specified by surfObject.

See also:

cuSurfObjectCreate, cudaDestroySurfaceObject

CUresult cuSurfObjectGetResourceDesc ( CUDA_RESOURCE_DESC* pResDesc, CUsurfObject surfObject )
Returns a surface object's resource descriptor.
Parameters
pResDesc
- Resource descriptor
surfObject
- Surface object
Description

Returns the resource descriptor for the surface object specified by surfObject.

See also:

cuSurfObjectCreate, cudaGetSurfaceObjectResourceDesc