6.1. Device Management

This section describes the device management functions of the CUDA runtime application programming interface.

Functions

__host__cudaError_t cudaChooseDevice ( int* device, const cudaDeviceProp* prop )
Select compute-device which best matches criteria.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceFlushGPUDirectRDMAWrites ( cudaFlushGPUDirectRDMAWritesTarget target, cudaFlushGPUDirectRDMAWritesScope scope )
Blocks until remote writes are visible to the specified scope.
__host____device__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetAttribute ( int* value, cudaDeviceAttr attr, int  device )
Returns information about the device.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetByPCIBusId ( int* device, const char* pciBusId )
Returns a handle to a compute device.
__host____device__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetCacheConfig ( cudaFuncCache* pCacheConfig )
Returns the preferred cache configuration for the current device.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetDefaultMemPool ( cudaMemPool_t* memPool, int  device )
Returns the default mempool of a device.
__host____device__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetLimit ( size_t* pValue, cudaLimit limit )
Return resource limits.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetMemPool ( cudaMemPool_t* memPool, int  device )
Gets the current mempool for a device.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetNvSciSyncAttributes ( void* nvSciSyncAttrList, int  device, int  flags )
Return NvSciSync attributes that this device can support.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetP2PAttribute ( int* value, cudaDeviceP2PAttr attr, int  srcDevice, int  dstDevice )
Queries attributes of the link between two devices.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetPCIBusId ( char* pciBusId, int  len, int  device )
Returns a PCI Bus Id string for the device.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetStreamPriorityRange ( int* leastPriority, int* greatestPriority )
Returns numerical values that correspond to the least and greatest stream priorities.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetTexture1DLinearMaxWidth ( size_t* maxWidthInElements, const cudaChannelFormatDesc* fmtDesc, int  device )
Returns the maximum number of elements allocatable in a 1D linear texture for a given element size.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceRegisterAsyncNotification ( int  device, cudaAsyncCallback callbackFunc, void* userData, cudaAsyncCallbackHandle_t* callback )
Registers a callback function to receive async notifications.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceReset ( void )
Destroy all allocations and reset all state on the current device in the current process.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceSetCacheConfig ( cudaFuncCache cacheConfig )
Sets the preferred cache configuration for the current device.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceSetLimit ( cudaLimit limit, size_t value )
Set resource limits.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceSetMemPool ( int  device, cudaMemPool_t memPool )
Sets the current memory pool of a device.
__host____device__cudaError_t cudaDeviceSynchronize ( void )
Wait for compute device to finish.
__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceUnregisterAsyncNotification ( int  device, cudaAsyncCallbackHandle_t callback )
Unregisters an async notification callback.
__host____device__cudaError_t cudaGetDevice ( int* device )
Returns which device is currently being used.
__host____device__cudaError_t cudaGetDeviceCount ( int* count )
Returns the number of compute-capable devices.
__host__cudaError_t cudaGetDeviceFlags ( unsigned int* flags )
Gets the flags for the current device.
__host__cudaError_t cudaGetDeviceProperties ( cudaDeviceProp* prop, int  device )
Returns information about the compute-device.
__host__cudaError_t cudaInitDevice ( int  device, unsigned int  deviceFlags, unsigned int  flags )
Initialize device to be used for GPU executions.
__host__cudaError_t cudaIpcCloseMemHandle ( void* devPtr )
Attempts to close memory mapped with cudaIpcOpenMemHandle.
__host__cudaError_t cudaIpcGetEventHandle ( cudaIpcEventHandle_t* handle, cudaEvent_t event )
Gets an interprocess handle for a previously allocated event.
__host__cudaError_t cudaIpcGetMemHandle ( cudaIpcMemHandle_t* handle, void* devPtr )
Gets an interprocess memory handle for an existing device memory allocation.
__host__cudaError_t cudaIpcOpenEventHandle ( cudaEvent_t* event, cudaIpcEventHandle_t handle )
Opens an interprocess event handle for use in the current process.
__host__cudaError_t cudaIpcOpenMemHandle ( void** devPtr, cudaIpcMemHandle_t handle, unsigned int  flags )
Opens an interprocess memory handle exported from another process and returns a device pointer usable in the local process.
__host__cudaError_t cudaSetDevice ( int  device )
Set device to be used for GPU executions.
__host__cudaError_t cudaSetDeviceFlags ( unsigned int  flags )
Sets flags to be used for device executions.
__host__cudaError_t cudaSetValidDevices ( int* device_arr, int  len )
Set a list of devices that can be used for CUDA.

Functions

__host__cudaError_t cudaChooseDevice ( int* device, const cudaDeviceProp* prop )
Select compute-device which best matches criteria.
Parameters
device
- Device with best match
prop
- Desired device properties
Description

Returns in *device the device which has properties that best match *prop.

Note:

See also:

cudaGetDeviceCount, cudaGetDevice, cudaSetDevice, cudaGetDeviceProperties, cudaInitDevice

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceFlushGPUDirectRDMAWrites ( cudaFlushGPUDirectRDMAWritesTarget target, cudaFlushGPUDirectRDMAWritesScope scope )
Blocks until remote writes are visible to the specified scope.
Parameters
target
- The target of the operation, see cudaFlushGPUDirectRDMAWritesTarget
scope
- The scope of the operation, see cudaFlushGPUDirectRDMAWritesScope
Description

Blocks until remote writes to the target context via mappings created through GPUDirect RDMA APIs, like nvidia_p2p_get_pages (see https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/gpudirect-rdma for more information), are visible to the specified scope.

If the scope equals or lies within the scope indicated by cudaDevAttrGPUDirectRDMAWritesOrdering, the call will be a no-op and can be safely omitted for performance. This can be determined by comparing the numerical values between the two enums, with smaller scopes having smaller values.

Users may query support for this API via cudaDevAttrGPUDirectRDMAFlushWritesOptions.

Note:

See also:

cuFlushGPUDirectRDMAWrites

__host____device__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetAttribute ( int* value, cudaDeviceAttr attr, int  device )
Returns information about the device.
Parameters
value
- Returned device attribute value
attr
- Device attribute to query
device
- Device number to query
Description

Returns in *value the integer value of the attribute attr on device device. The supported attributes are:

Note:

See also:

cudaGetDeviceCount, cudaGetDevice, cudaSetDevice, cudaChooseDevice, cudaGetDeviceProperties, cudaInitDevice, cuDeviceGetAttribute

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetByPCIBusId ( int* device, const char* pciBusId )
Returns a handle to a compute device.
Parameters
device
- Returned device ordinal
pciBusId
- String in one of the following forms: [domain]:[bus]:[device].[function] [domain]:[bus]:[device] [bus]:[device].[function] where domain, bus, device, and function are all hexadecimal values
Description

Returns in *device a device ordinal given a PCI bus ID string.

Note:

See also:

cudaDeviceGetPCIBusId, cuDeviceGetByPCIBusId

__host____device__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetCacheConfig ( cudaFuncCache* pCacheConfig )
Returns the preferred cache configuration for the current device.
Parameters
pCacheConfig
- Returned cache configuration
Returns

cudaSuccess

Description

On devices where the L1 cache and shared memory use the same hardware resources, this returns through pCacheConfig the preferred cache configuration for the current device. This is only a preference. The runtime will use the requested configuration if possible, but it is free to choose a different configuration if required to execute functions.

This will return a pCacheConfig of cudaFuncCachePreferNone on devices where the size of the L1 cache and shared memory are fixed.

The supported cache configurations are:

Note:

See also:

cudaDeviceSetCacheConfig, cudaFuncSetCacheConfig ( C API), cudaFuncSetCacheConfig ( C++ API), cuCtxGetCacheConfig

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetDefaultMemPool ( cudaMemPool_t* memPool, int  device )
Returns the default mempool of a device.
Description

The default mempool of a device contains device memory from that device.

Note:

See also:

cuDeviceGetDefaultMemPool, cudaMallocAsync, cudaMemPoolTrimTo, cudaMemPoolGetAttribute, cudaDeviceSetMemPool, cudaMemPoolSetAttribute, cudaMemPoolSetAccess

__host____device__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetLimit ( size_t* pValue, cudaLimit limit )
Return resource limits.
Parameters
pValue
- Returned size of the limit
limit
- Limit to query
Description

Returns in *pValue the current size of limit. The following cudaLimit values are supported.

Note:

See also:

cudaDeviceSetLimit, cuCtxGetLimit

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetMemPool ( cudaMemPool_t* memPool, int  device )
Gets the current mempool for a device.
Description

Returns the last pool provided to cudaDeviceSetMemPool for this device or the device's default memory pool if cudaDeviceSetMemPool has never been called. By default the current mempool is the default mempool for a device, otherwise the returned pool must have been set with cuDeviceSetMemPool or cudaDeviceSetMemPool.

Note:

See also:

cuDeviceGetMemPool, cudaDeviceGetDefaultMemPool, cudaDeviceSetMemPool

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetNvSciSyncAttributes ( void* nvSciSyncAttrList, int  device, int  flags )
Return NvSciSync attributes that this device can support.
Parameters
nvSciSyncAttrList
- Return NvSciSync attributes supported.
device
- Valid Cuda Device to get NvSciSync attributes for.
flags
- flags describing NvSciSync usage.
Description

Returns in nvSciSyncAttrList, the properties of NvSciSync that this CUDA device, dev can support. The returned nvSciSyncAttrList can be used to create an NvSciSync that matches this device's capabilities.

If NvSciSyncAttrKey_RequiredPerm field in nvSciSyncAttrList is already set this API will return cudaErrorInvalidValue.

The applications should set nvSciSyncAttrList to a valid NvSciSyncAttrList failing which this API will return cudaErrorInvalidHandle.

The flags controls how applications intends to use the NvSciSync created from the nvSciSyncAttrList. The valid flags are:

At least one of these flags must be set, failing which the API returns cudaErrorInvalidValue. Both the flags are orthogonal to one another: a developer may set both these flags that allows to set both wait and signal specific attributes in the same nvSciSyncAttrList.

Note that this API updates the input nvSciSyncAttrList with values equivalent to the following public attribute key-values: NvSciSyncAttrKey_RequiredPerm is set to

  • NvSciSyncAccessPerm_SignalOnly if cudaNvSciSyncAttrSignal is set in flags.

  • NvSciSyncAccessPerm_WaitOnly if cudaNvSciSyncAttrWait is set in flags.

  • NvSciSyncAccessPerm_WaitSignal if both cudaNvSciSyncAttrWait and cudaNvSciSyncAttrSignal are set in flags. NvSciSyncAttrKey_PrimitiveInfo is set to

  • NvSciSyncAttrValPrimitiveType_SysmemSemaphore on any valid device.

  • NvSciSyncAttrValPrimitiveType_Syncpoint if device is a Tegra device.

  • NvSciSyncAttrValPrimitiveType_SysmemSemaphorePayload64b if device is GA10X+. NvSciSyncAttrKey_GpuId is set to the same UUID that is returned in cudaDeviceProp.uuid from cudaDeviceGetProperties for this device.

cudaSuccess, cudaErrorDeviceUninitialized, cudaErrorInvalidValue, cudaErrorInvalidHandle, cudaErrorInvalidDevice, cudaErrorNotSupported, cudaErrorMemoryAllocation

See also:

cudaImportExternalSemaphore, cudaDestroyExternalSemaphore, cudaSignalExternalSemaphoresAsync, cudaWaitExternalSemaphoresAsync

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetP2PAttribute ( int* value, cudaDeviceP2PAttr attr, int  srcDevice, int  dstDevice )
Queries attributes of the link between two devices.
Parameters
value
- Returned value of the requested attribute
attr
srcDevice
- The source device of the target link.
dstDevice
- The destination device of the target link.
Description

Returns in *value the value of the requested attribute attrib of the link between srcDevice and dstDevice. The supported attributes are:

Returns cudaErrorInvalidDevice if srcDevice or dstDevice are not valid or if they represent the same device.

Returns cudaErrorInvalidValue if attrib is not valid or if value is a null pointer.

Note:

See also:

cudaDeviceEnablePeerAccess, cudaDeviceDisablePeerAccess, cudaDeviceCanAccessPeer, cuDeviceGetP2PAttribute

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetPCIBusId ( char* pciBusId, int  len, int  device )
Returns a PCI Bus Id string for the device.
Parameters
pciBusId
- Returned identifier string for the device in the following format [domain]:[bus]:[device].[function] where domain, bus, device, and function are all hexadecimal values. pciBusId should be large enough to store 13 characters including the NULL-terminator.
len
- Maximum length of string to store in name
device
- Device to get identifier string for
Description

Returns an ASCII string identifying the device dev in the NULL-terminated string pointed to by pciBusId. len specifies the maximum length of the string that may be returned.

Note:

See also:

cudaDeviceGetByPCIBusId, cuDeviceGetPCIBusId

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetStreamPriorityRange ( int* leastPriority, int* greatestPriority )
Returns numerical values that correspond to the least and greatest stream priorities.
Parameters
leastPriority
- Pointer to an int in which the numerical value for least stream priority is returned
greatestPriority
- Pointer to an int in which the numerical value for greatest stream priority is returned
Returns

cudaSuccess

Description

Returns in *leastPriority and *greatestPriority the numerical values that correspond to the least and greatest stream priorities respectively. Stream priorities follow a convention where lower numbers imply greater priorities. The range of meaningful stream priorities is given by [*greatestPriority, *leastPriority]. If the user attempts to create a stream with a priority value that is outside the the meaningful range as specified by this API, the priority is automatically clamped down or up to either *leastPriority or *greatestPriority respectively. See cudaStreamCreateWithPriority for details on creating a priority stream. A NULL may be passed in for *leastPriority or *greatestPriority if the value is not desired.

This function will return '0' in both *leastPriority and *greatestPriority if the current context's device does not support stream priorities (see cudaDeviceGetAttribute).

Note:

See also:

cudaStreamCreateWithPriority, cudaStreamGetPriority, cuCtxGetStreamPriorityRange

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceGetTexture1DLinearMaxWidth ( size_t* maxWidthInElements, const cudaChannelFormatDesc* fmtDesc, int  device )
Returns the maximum number of elements allocatable in a 1D linear texture for a given element size.
Parameters
maxWidthInElements
- Returns maximum number of texture elements allocatable for given fmtDesc.
fmtDesc
- Texture format description.
device
Description

Returns in maxWidthInElements the maximum number of elements allocatable in a 1D linear texture for given format descriptor fmtDesc.

Note:

See also:

cuDeviceGetTexture1DLinearMaxWidth

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceRegisterAsyncNotification ( int  device, cudaAsyncCallback callbackFunc, void* userData, cudaAsyncCallbackHandle_t* callback )
Registers a callback function to receive async notifications.
Parameters
device
- The device on which to register the callback
callbackFunc
- The function to register as a callback
userData
- A generic pointer to user data. This is passed into the callback function.
callback
- A handle representing the registered callback instance
Description

Registers callbackFunc to receive async notifications.

The userData parameter is passed to the callback function at async notification time. Likewise, callback is also passed to the callback function to distinguish between multiple registered callbacks.

The callback function being registered should be designed to return quickly (~10ms). Any long running tasks should be queued for execution on an application thread.

Callbacks may not call cudaDeviceRegisterAsyncNotification or cudaDeviceUnregisterAsyncNotification. Doing so will result in cudaErrorNotPermitted. Async notification callbacks execute in an undefined order and may be serialized.

Returns in *callback a handle representing the registered callback instance.

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

See also:

cudaDeviceUnregisterAsyncNotification

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceReset ( void )
Destroy all allocations and reset all state on the current device in the current process.
Returns

cudaSuccess

Description

Explicitly destroys and cleans up all resources associated with the current device in the current process. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that the resources are not accessed or passed in subsequent API calls and doing so will result in undefined behavior. These resources include CUDA types cudaStream_t, cudaEvent_t, cudaArray_t, cudaMipmappedArray_t, cudaPitchedPtr, cudaTextureObject_t, cudaSurfaceObject_t, textureReference, surfaceReference, cudaExternalMemory_t, cudaExternalSemaphore_t and cudaGraphicsResource_t. These resources also include memory allocations by cudaMalloc, cudaMallocHost, cudaMallocManaged and cudaMallocPitch. Any subsequent API call to this device will reinitialize the device.

Note that this function will reset the device immediately. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that the device is not being accessed by any other host threads from the process when this function is called.

Note:

Note:

See also:

cudaDeviceSynchronize

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceSetCacheConfig ( cudaFuncCache cacheConfig )
Sets the preferred cache configuration for the current device.
Parameters
cacheConfig
- Requested cache configuration
Returns

cudaSuccess

Description

On devices where the L1 cache and shared memory use the same hardware resources, this sets through cacheConfig the preferred cache configuration for the current device. This is only a preference. The runtime will use the requested configuration if possible, but it is free to choose a different configuration if required to execute the function. Any function preference set via cudaFuncSetCacheConfig ( C API) or cudaFuncSetCacheConfig ( C++ API) will be preferred over this device-wide setting. Setting the device-wide cache configuration to cudaFuncCachePreferNone will cause subsequent kernel launches to prefer to not change the cache configuration unless required to launch the kernel.

This setting does nothing on devices where the size of the L1 cache and shared memory are fixed.

Launching a kernel with a different preference than the most recent preference setting may insert a device-side synchronization point.

The supported cache configurations are:

Note:

See also:

cudaDeviceGetCacheConfig, cudaFuncSetCacheConfig ( C API), cudaFuncSetCacheConfig ( C++ API), cuCtxSetCacheConfig

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceSetLimit ( cudaLimit limit, size_t value )
Set resource limits.
Parameters
limit
- Limit to set
value
- Size of limit
Description

Setting limit to value is a request by the application to update the current limit maintained by the device. The driver is free to modify the requested value to meet h/w requirements (this could be clamping to minimum or maximum values, rounding up to nearest element size, etc). The application can use cudaDeviceGetLimit() to find out exactly what the limit has been set to.

Setting each cudaLimit has its own specific restrictions, so each is discussed here.

  • cudaLimitDevRuntimeSyncDepth controls the maximum nesting depth of a grid at which a thread can safely call cudaDeviceSynchronize(). Setting this limit must be performed before any launch of a kernel that uses the device runtime and calls cudaDeviceSynchronize() above the default sync depth, two levels of grids. Calls to cudaDeviceSynchronize() will fail with error code cudaErrorSyncDepthExceeded if the limitation is violated. This limit can be set smaller than the default or up the maximum launch depth of 24. When setting this limit, keep in mind that additional levels of sync depth require the runtime to reserve large amounts of device memory which can no longer be used for user allocations. If these reservations of device memory fail, cudaDeviceSetLimit will return cudaErrorMemoryAllocation, and the limit can be reset to a lower value. This limit is only applicable to devices of compute capability < 9.0. Attempting to set this limit on devices of other compute capability will results in error cudaErrorUnsupportedLimit being returned.

  • cudaLimitDevRuntimePendingLaunchCount controls the maximum number of outstanding device runtime launches that can be made from the current device. A grid is outstanding from the point of launch up until the grid is known to have been completed. Device runtime launches which violate this limitation fail and return cudaErrorLaunchPendingCountExceeded when cudaGetLastError() is called after launch. If more pending launches than the default (2048 launches) are needed for a module using the device runtime, this limit can be increased. Keep in mind that being able to sustain additional pending launches will require the runtime to reserve larger amounts of device memory upfront which can no longer be used for allocations. If these reservations fail, cudaDeviceSetLimit will return cudaErrorMemoryAllocation, and the limit can be reset to a lower value. This limit is only applicable to devices of compute capability 3.5 and higher. Attempting to set this limit on devices of compute capability less than 3.5 will result in the error cudaErrorUnsupportedLimit being returned.

  • cudaLimitMaxL2FetchGranularity controls the L2 cache fetch granularity. Values can range from 0B to 128B. This is purely a performance hint and it can be ignored or clamped depending on the platform.

  • cudaLimitPersistingL2CacheSize controls size in bytes available for persisting L2 cache. This is purely a performance hint and it can be ignored or clamped depending on the platform.

Note:

See also:

cudaDeviceGetLimit, cuCtxSetLimit

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceSetMemPool ( int  device, cudaMemPool_t memPool )
Sets the current memory pool of a device.
Description

The memory pool must be local to the specified device. Unless a mempool is specified in the cudaMallocAsync call, cudaMallocAsync allocates from the current mempool of the provided stream's device. By default, a device's current memory pool is its default memory pool.

Note:

Use cudaMallocFromPoolAsync to specify asynchronous allocations from a device different than the one the stream runs on.

Note:
  • Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

  • Note that as specified by cudaStreamAddCallback no CUDA function may be called from callback. cudaErrorNotPermitted may, but is not guaranteed to, be returned as a diagnostic in such case.

See also:

cuDeviceSetMemPool, cudaDeviceGetMemPool, cudaDeviceGetDefaultMemPool, cudaMemPoolCreate, cudaMemPoolDestroy, cudaMallocFromPoolAsync

__host____device__cudaError_t cudaDeviceSynchronize ( void )
Wait for compute device to finish.
Returns

cudaSuccess

Description

Blocks until the device has completed all preceding requested tasks. cudaDeviceSynchronize() returns an error if one of the preceding tasks has failed. If the cudaDeviceScheduleBlockingSync flag was set for this device, the host thread will block until the device has finished its work.

Note:
  • Use of cudaDeviceSynchronize in device code was deprecated in CUDA 11.6 and removed for compute_90+ compilation. For compute capability < 9.0, compile-time opt-in by specifying -D CUDA_FORCE_CDP1_IF_SUPPORTED is required to continue using cudaDeviceSynchronize() in device code for now. Note that this is different from host-side cudaDeviceSynchronize, which is still supported.

  • Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

  • Note that this function may also return cudaErrorInitializationError, cudaErrorInsufficientDriver or cudaErrorNoDevice if this call tries to initialize internal CUDA RT state.

  • Note that as specified by cudaStreamAddCallback no CUDA function may be called from callback. cudaErrorNotPermitted may, but is not guaranteed to, be returned as a diagnostic in such case.

See also:

cudaDeviceReset, cuCtxSynchronize

__host__cudaError_t cudaDeviceUnregisterAsyncNotification ( int  device, cudaAsyncCallbackHandle_t callback )
Unregisters an async notification callback.
Parameters
device
- The device from which to remove callback.
callback
- The callback instance to unregister from receiving async notifications.
Description

Unregisters callback so that the corresponding callback function will stop receiving async notifications.

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

See also:

cudaDeviceRegisterAsyncNotification

__host____device__cudaError_t cudaGetDevice ( int* device )
Returns which device is currently being used.
Parameters
device
- Returns the device on which the active host thread executes the device code.
Returns

cudaSuccess, cudaErrorInvalidValue, cudaErrorDeviceUnavailable,

Description

Returns in *device the current device for the calling host thread.

Note:

See also:

cudaGetDeviceCount, cudaSetDevice, cudaGetDeviceProperties, cudaChooseDevice, cuCtxGetCurrent

__host____device__cudaError_t cudaGetDeviceCount ( int* count )
Returns the number of compute-capable devices.
Parameters
count
- Returns the number of devices with compute capability greater or equal to 2.0
Returns

cudaSuccess

Description

Returns in *count the number of devices with compute capability greater or equal to 2.0 that are available for execution.

Note:

See also:

cudaGetDevice, cudaSetDevice, cudaGetDeviceProperties, cudaChooseDevice, cudaInitDevice, cuDeviceGetCount

__host__cudaError_t cudaGetDeviceFlags ( unsigned int* flags )
Gets the flags for the current device.
Parameters
flags
- Pointer to store the device flags
Description

Returns in flags the flags for the current device. If there is a current device for the calling thread, the flags for the device are returned. If there is no current device, the flags for the first device are returned, which may be the default flags. Compare to the behavior of cudaSetDeviceFlags.

Typically, the flags returned should match the behavior that will be seen if the calling thread uses a device after this call, without any change to the flags or current device inbetween by this or another thread. Note that if the device is not initialized, it is possible for another thread to change the flags for the current device before it is initialized. Additionally, when using exclusive mode, if this thread has not requested a specific device, it may use a device other than the first device, contrary to the assumption made by this function.

If a context has been created via the driver API and is current to the calling thread, the flags for that context are always returned.

Flags returned by this function may specifically include cudaDeviceMapHost even though it is not accepted by cudaSetDeviceFlags because it is implicit in runtime API flags. The reason for this is that the current context may have been created via the driver API in which case the flag is not implicit and may be unset.

Note:

See also:

cudaGetDevice, cudaGetDeviceProperties, cudaSetDevice, cudaSetDeviceFlags, cudaInitDevice, cuCtxGetFlags, cuDevicePrimaryCtxGetState

__host__cudaError_t cudaGetDeviceProperties ( cudaDeviceProp* prop, int  device )
Returns information about the compute-device.
Parameters
prop
- Properties for the specified device
device
- Device number to get properties for
Description

Returns in *prop the properties of device dev. The cudaDeviceProp structure is defined as:

‎    struct cudaDeviceProp {
              char name[256];
              cudaUUID_t uuid;
              size_t totalGlobalMem;
              size_t sharedMemPerBlock;
              int regsPerBlock;
              int warpSize;
              size_t memPitch;
              int maxThreadsPerBlock;
              int maxThreadsDim[3];
              int maxGridSize[3];
              int clockRate;
              size_t totalConstMem;
              int major;
              int minor;
              size_t textureAlignment;
              size_t texturePitchAlignment;
              int deviceOverlap;
              int multiProcessorCount;
              int kernelExecTimeoutEnabled;
              int integrated;
              int canMapHostMemory;
              int computeMode;
              int maxTexture1D;
              int maxTexture1DMipmap;
              int maxTexture1DLinear;
              int maxTexture2D[2];
              int maxTexture2DMipmap[2];
              int maxTexture2DLinear[3];
              int maxTexture2DGather[2];
              int maxTexture3D[3];
              int maxTexture3DAlt[3];
              int maxTextureCubemap;
              int maxTexture1DLayered[2];
              int maxTexture2DLayered[3];
              int maxTextureCubemapLayered[2];
              int maxSurface1D;
              int maxSurface2D[2];
              int maxSurface3D[3];
              int maxSurface1DLayered[2];
              int maxSurface2DLayered[3];
              int maxSurfaceCubemap;
              int maxSurfaceCubemapLayered[2];
              size_t surfaceAlignment;
              int concurrentKernels;
              int ECCEnabled;
              int pciBusID;
              int pciDeviceID;
              int pciDomainID;
              int tccDriver;
              int asyncEngineCount;
              int unifiedAddressing;
              int memoryClockRate;
              int memoryBusWidth;
              int l2CacheSize;
              int persistingL2CacheMaxSize;
              int maxThreadsPerMultiProcessor;
              int streamPrioritiesSupported;
              int globalL1CacheSupported;
              int localL1CacheSupported;
              size_t sharedMemPerMultiprocessor;
              int regsPerMultiprocessor;
              int managedMemory;
              int isMultiGpuBoard;
              int multiGpuBoardGroupID;
              int singleToDoublePrecisionPerfRatio;
              int pageableMemoryAccess;
              int concurrentManagedAccess;
              int computePreemptionSupported;
              int canUseHostPointerForRegisteredMem;
              int cooperativeLaunch;
              int cooperativeMultiDeviceLaunch;
              int pageableMemoryAccessUsesHostPageTables;
              int directManagedMemAccessFromHost;
              int accessPolicyMaxWindowSize;
          }
where:

Note:

See also:

cudaGetDeviceCount, cudaGetDevice, cudaSetDevice, cudaChooseDevice, cudaDeviceGetAttribute, cudaInitDevice, cuDeviceGetAttribute, cuDeviceGetName

__host__cudaError_t cudaInitDevice ( int  device, unsigned int  deviceFlags, unsigned int  flags )
Initialize device to be used for GPU executions.
Parameters
device
- Device on which the runtime will initialize itself.
deviceFlags
- Parameters for device operation.
flags
- Flags for controlling the device initialization.
Description

This function will initialize the CUDA Runtime structures and primary context on device when called, but the context will not be made current to device.

When cudaInitDeviceFlagsAreValid is set in flags, deviceFlags are applied to the requested device. The values of deviceFlags match those of the flags parameters in cudaSetDeviceFlags. The effect may be verified by cudaGetDeviceFlags.

This function will return an error if the device is in cudaComputeModeExclusiveProcess and is occupied by another process or if the device is in cudaComputeModeProhibited.

Note:

See also:

cudaGetDeviceCount, cudaGetDevice, cudaGetDeviceProperties, cudaChooseDevice, cudaSetDevicecuCtxSetCurrent

__host__cudaError_t cudaIpcCloseMemHandle ( void* devPtr )
Attempts to close memory mapped with cudaIpcOpenMemHandle.
Parameters
devPtr
- Device pointer returned by cudaIpcOpenMemHandle
Description

Decrements the reference count of the memory returnd by cudaIpcOpenMemHandle by 1. When the reference count reaches 0, this API unmaps the memory. The original allocation in the exporting process as well as imported mappings in other processes will be unaffected.

Any resources used to enable peer access will be freed if this is the last mapping using them.

IPC functionality is restricted to devices with support for unified addressing on Linux and Windows operating systems. IPC functionality on Windows is supported for compatibility purposes but not recommended as it comes with performance cost. Users can test their device for IPC functionality by calling cudaDeviceGetAttribute with cudaDevAttrIpcEventSupport

Note:

See also:

cudaMalloc, cudaFree, cudaIpcGetEventHandle, cudaIpcOpenEventHandle, cudaIpcGetMemHandle, cudaIpcOpenMemHandle, cuIpcCloseMemHandle

__host__cudaError_t cudaIpcGetEventHandle ( cudaIpcEventHandle_t* handle, cudaEvent_t event )
Gets an interprocess handle for a previously allocated event.
Parameters
handle
- Pointer to a user allocated cudaIpcEventHandle in which to return the opaque event handle
event
- Event allocated with cudaEventInterprocess and cudaEventDisableTiming flags.
Description

Takes as input a previously allocated event. This event must have been created with the cudaEventInterprocess and cudaEventDisableTiming flags set. This opaque handle may be copied into other processes and opened with cudaIpcOpenEventHandle to allow efficient hardware synchronization between GPU work in different processes.

After the event has been been opened in the importing process, cudaEventRecord, cudaEventSynchronize, cudaStreamWaitEvent and cudaEventQuery may be used in either process. Performing operations on the imported event after the exported event has been freed with cudaEventDestroy will result in undefined behavior.

IPC functionality is restricted to devices with support for unified addressing on Linux and Windows operating systems. IPC functionality on Windows is supported for compatibility purposes but not recommended as it comes with performance cost. Users can test their device for IPC functionality by calling cudaDeviceGetAttribute with cudaDevAttrIpcEventSupport

Note:

See also:

cudaEventCreate, cudaEventDestroy, cudaEventSynchronize, cudaEventQuery, cudaStreamWaitEvent, cudaIpcOpenEventHandle, cudaIpcGetMemHandle, cudaIpcOpenMemHandle, cudaIpcCloseMemHandle, cuIpcGetEventHandle

__host__cudaError_t cudaIpcGetMemHandle ( cudaIpcMemHandle_t* handle, void* devPtr )
Gets an interprocess memory handle for an existing device memory allocation.
Parameters
handle
- Pointer to user allocated cudaIpcMemHandle to return the handle in.
devPtr
- Base pointer to previously allocated device memory
Description

Takes a pointer to the base of an existing device memory allocation created with cudaMalloc and exports it for use in another process. This is a lightweight operation and may be called multiple times on an allocation without adverse effects.

If a region of memory is freed with cudaFree and a subsequent call to cudaMalloc returns memory with the same device address, cudaIpcGetMemHandle will return a unique handle for the new memory.

IPC functionality is restricted to devices with support for unified addressing on Linux and Windows operating systems. IPC functionality on Windows is supported for compatibility purposes but not recommended as it comes with performance cost. Users can test their device for IPC functionality by calling cudaDeviceGetAttribute with cudaDevAttrIpcEventSupport

Note:

See also:

cudaMalloc, cudaFree, cudaIpcGetEventHandle, cudaIpcOpenEventHandle, cudaIpcOpenMemHandle, cudaIpcCloseMemHandle, cuIpcGetMemHandle

__host__cudaError_t cudaIpcOpenEventHandle ( cudaEvent_t* event, cudaIpcEventHandle_t handle )
Opens an interprocess event handle for use in the current process.
Parameters
event
- Returns the imported event
handle
- Interprocess handle to open
Description

Opens an interprocess event handle exported from another process with cudaIpcGetEventHandle. This function returns a cudaEvent_t that behaves like a locally created event with the cudaEventDisableTiming flag specified. This event must be freed with cudaEventDestroy.

Performing operations on the imported event after the exported event has been freed with cudaEventDestroy will result in undefined behavior.

IPC functionality is restricted to devices with support for unified addressing on Linux and Windows operating systems. IPC functionality on Windows is supported for compatibility purposes but not recommended as it comes with performance cost. Users can test their device for IPC functionality by calling cudaDeviceGetAttribute with cudaDevAttrIpcEventSupport

Note:

See also:

cudaEventCreate, cudaEventDestroy, cudaEventSynchronize, cudaEventQuery, cudaStreamWaitEvent, cudaIpcGetEventHandle, cudaIpcGetMemHandle, cudaIpcOpenMemHandle, cudaIpcCloseMemHandle, cuIpcOpenEventHandle

__host__cudaError_t cudaIpcOpenMemHandle ( void** devPtr, cudaIpcMemHandle_t handle, unsigned int  flags )
Opens an interprocess memory handle exported from another process and returns a device pointer usable in the local process.
Parameters
devPtr
- Returned device pointer
handle
- cudaIpcMemHandle to open
flags
- Flags for this operation. Must be specified as cudaIpcMemLazyEnablePeerAccess
Description

Maps memory exported from another process with cudaIpcGetMemHandle into the current device address space. For contexts on different devices cudaIpcOpenMemHandle can attempt to enable peer access between the devices as if the user called cudaDeviceEnablePeerAccess. This behavior is controlled by the cudaIpcMemLazyEnablePeerAccess flag. cudaDeviceCanAccessPeer can determine if a mapping is possible.

cudaIpcOpenMemHandle can open handles to devices that may not be visible in the process calling the API.

Contexts that may open cudaIpcMemHandles are restricted in the following way. cudaIpcMemHandles from each device in a given process may only be opened by one context per device per other process.

If the memory handle has already been opened by the current context, the reference count on the handle is incremented by 1 and the existing device pointer is returned.

Memory returned from cudaIpcOpenMemHandle must be freed with cudaIpcCloseMemHandle.

Calling cudaFree on an exported memory region before calling cudaIpcCloseMemHandle in the importing context will result in undefined behavior.

IPC functionality is restricted to devices with support for unified addressing on Linux and Windows operating systems. IPC functionality on Windows is supported for compatibility purposes but not recommended as it comes with performance cost. Users can test their device for IPC functionality by calling cudaDeviceGetAttribute with cudaDevAttrIpcEventSupport

Note:

See also:

cudaMalloc, cudaFree, cudaIpcGetEventHandle, cudaIpcOpenEventHandle, cudaIpcGetMemHandle, cudaIpcCloseMemHandle, cudaDeviceEnablePeerAccess, cudaDeviceCanAccessPeer, cuIpcOpenMemHandle

__host__cudaError_t cudaSetDevice ( int  device )
Set device to be used for GPU executions.
Parameters
device
- Device on which the active host thread should execute the device code.
Returns

cudaSuccess, cudaErrorInvalidDevice, cudaErrorDeviceUnavailable,

Description

Sets device as the current device for the calling host thread. Valid device id's are 0 to (cudaGetDeviceCount() - 1).

Any device memory subsequently allocated from this host thread using cudaMalloc(), cudaMallocPitch() or cudaMallocArray() will be physically resident on device. Any host memory allocated from this host thread using cudaMallocHost() or cudaHostAlloc() or cudaHostRegister() will have its lifetime associated with device. Any streams or events created from this host thread will be associated with device. Any kernels launched from this host thread using the <<<>>> operator or cudaLaunchKernel() will be executed on device.

This call may be made from any host thread, to any device, and at any time. This function will do no synchronization with the previous or new device, and should only take significant time when it initializes the runtime's context state. This call will bind the primary context of the specified device to the calling thread and all the subsequent memory allocations, stream and event creations, and kernel launches will be associated with the primary context. This function will also immediately initialize the runtime state on the primary context, and the context will be current on device immediately. This function will return an error if the device is in cudaComputeModeExclusiveProcess and is occupied by another process or if the device is in cudaComputeModeProhibited.

It is not required to call cudaInitDevice before using this function.

Note:

See also:

cudaGetDeviceCount, cudaGetDevice, cudaGetDeviceProperties, cudaChooseDevice, cudaInitDevice, cuCtxSetCurrent

__host__cudaError_t cudaSetDeviceFlags ( unsigned int  flags )
Sets flags to be used for device executions.
Parameters
flags
- Parameters for device operation
Description

Records flags as the flags for the current device. If the current device has been set and that device has already been initialized, the previous flags are overwritten. If the current device has not been initialized, it is initialized with the provided flags. If no device has been made current to the calling thread, a default device is selected and initialized with the provided flags.

The two LSBs of the flags parameter can be used to control how the CPU thread interacts with the OS scheduler when waiting for results from the device.

  • cudaDeviceScheduleAuto: The default value if the flags parameter is zero, uses a heuristic based on the number of active CUDA contexts in the process C and the number of logical processors in the system P. If C > P, then CUDA will yield to other OS threads when waiting for the device, otherwise CUDA will not yield while waiting for results and actively spin on the processor. Additionally, on Tegra devices, cudaDeviceScheduleAuto uses a heuristic based on the power profile of the platform and may choose cudaDeviceScheduleBlockingSync for low-powered devices.

  • cudaDeviceScheduleSpin: Instruct CUDA to actively spin when waiting for results from the device. This can decrease latency when waiting for the device, but may lower the performance of CPU threads if they are performing work in parallel with the CUDA thread.

  • cudaDeviceScheduleYield: Instruct CUDA to yield its thread when waiting for results from the device. This can increase latency when waiting for the device, but can increase the performance of CPU threads performing work in parallel with the device.

  • cudaDeviceScheduleBlockingSync: Instruct CUDA to block the CPU thread on a synchronization primitive when waiting for the device to finish work.

  • cudaDeviceBlockingSync: Instruct CUDA to block the CPU thread on a synchronization primitive when waiting for the device to finish work.

    Deprecated: This flag was deprecated as of CUDA 4.0 and replaced with cudaDeviceScheduleBlockingSync.

  • cudaDeviceMapHost: This flag enables allocating pinned host memory that is accessible to the device. It is implicit for the runtime but may be absent if a context is created using the driver API. If this flag is not set, cudaHostGetDevicePointer() will always return a failure code.

  • cudaDeviceLmemResizeToMax: Instruct CUDA to not reduce local memory after resizing local memory for a kernel. This can prevent thrashing by local memory allocations when launching many kernels with high local memory usage at the cost of potentially increased memory usage.

    Deprecated: This flag is deprecated and the behavior enabled by this flag is now the default and cannot be disabled.

  • cudaDeviceSyncMemops: Ensures that synchronous memory operations initiated on this context will always synchronize. See further documentation in the section titled "API Synchronization behavior" to learn more about cases when synchronous memory operations can exhibit asynchronous behavior.

Note:

See also:

cudaGetDeviceFlags, cudaGetDeviceCount, cudaGetDevice, cudaGetDeviceProperties, cudaSetDevice, cudaSetValidDevices, cudaInitDevice, cudaChooseDevice, cuDevicePrimaryCtxSetFlags

__host__cudaError_t cudaSetValidDevices ( int* device_arr, int  len )
Set a list of devices that can be used for CUDA.
Parameters
device_arr
- List of devices to try
len
- Number of devices in specified list
Description

Sets a list of devices for CUDA execution in priority order using device_arr. The parameter len specifies the number of elements in the list. CUDA will try devices from the list sequentially until it finds one that works. If this function is not called, or if it is called with a len of 0, then CUDA will go back to its default behavior of trying devices sequentially from a default list containing all of the available CUDA devices in the system. If a specified device ID in the list does not exist, this function will return cudaErrorInvalidDevice. If len is not 0 and device_arr is NULL or if len exceeds the number of devices in the system, then cudaErrorInvalidValue is returned.

Note:

See also:

cudaGetDeviceCount, cudaSetDevice, cudaGetDeviceProperties, cudaSetDeviceFlags, cudaChooseDevice