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clfinish is taking more time than kernel execution time

Altera_Forum
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‎06-27-2018 02:03 PM
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Hi All, 

I am working on a application where every millisec counts. Please refer to the below data.  

 

 

Time clFinish 40889 micro seconds 

OpenCl Execution time is: 32.301 milliseconds 

Time ReadBuffer 234 

 

 

 

 

Time clFinish 41386 micro seconds 

OpenCl Execution time is: 31.889 milliseconds 

Time ReadBuffer 331 

 

 

The kernel execution above is taking ~32msec, I have printed this using clGetEventProfilingInfo. But when I check the clfinish time it is close to ~40msec. 

As you can see above here there is a gap of 8msec from clfinish and kernel execution time. Even in profile.mon file the kernel execution status is close to 32msec.  

Can you please help me understand where I am loosing 8msec, as per my understanding the clfinish time should equivalent to that of the Kernel execution time as I dont have any pending Queues in commandQueue.  

 

 

 

Thanks in advance.
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Altera_Forum
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‎06-28-2018 02:11 AM
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Is this with a kernel that has profiling enabled? Profiling has extra overhead since it needs to dump the profiling info onto the disk.

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