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VAAPI MSDK CPU usage too heavy

duncanchou
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Hello Sir,

We decoded the h264 video file to RGB by sample_decode of  mediasdk, we found the CPU usage is  too heavy 100.7 %, is it correct? or some setting  we missed?

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Thanks

Michael Wu

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duncanchou
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Hello Mark,

I  understand them clearly from your answer now.

Thank you for your help.

Michael Wu

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Mark_L_Intel1
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Hi Michael,


It seems you are running on Open Source Media SDK 20.2.0 or 20.2.1. Yes I think the CPU usage is too heavy so not sure if this related to I/O or hardware codec enabling.


What's your environment, a Linux host, VM or Docker?

What's the Intel processor are you using?


You can also try followings:

  • Remove the output see if the CPU usage improved:./sample_decode h264 -i <input.h264> -rgb4 -hw -vaapi
  • Change the output format: ./sample_decode h264 -i <input.h264> -o output.yuv -hw -vaapi
  • Enable GPU copy: /sample_decode h264 -i <input.h264> -o output.yuv -hw -vaapi -gpucopy::on


Mark


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duncanchou
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Hello Mark,

We found remove the "-vaapi" and added  "-gpucopy::on" parameter, the performance will be improved and very good. 

BTW

What difference between with and without  "-vaapi"?

And 

#What's your environment, a Linux host, VM or Docker?

====> Linux host

#What's the Intel processor are you using?

====> Atom E3950

The attached is some test pictures. (Test_Record_0924_1.doc) 

 
 

Thanks for your support.

Michael Wu

 
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Mark_L_Intel1
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Hi Michael,


Thanks for the detailed test results and comparison.


It is good to see that performance got improved but I am still not understand why removing "-vaapi" will improve it. The fact that you are using Apollo Lake(E3950) should limited the usage of video memory. This is '-vaapi' mean: "work with vaapi surfaces". Here it should means video memory, this should improve the copying speed in geneory, but let me ask dev team.


Did you also try to remove "-rgb4" and see if the performance improved?


By the way, you can check the online sample documentation here by going to "sample" subdirectory:

https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK/tree/master/doc


Mark


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duncanchou
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Hello Mark,

If we remove the -rgb4, a little improved the performance, 

FPS is from 15 to 22, CPU usage is from 100 to 99....

The attached is our testing picture Test_Record_0925.doc . 

Thanks

Michael Wu

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Mark_L_Intel1
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Hi Michael,


Thanks for the testing, it seems -rgb4 is not the main bottleneck here.


For your question: "What difference between with and without "-vaapi"?" We have following analysis on sample_decode:

The expected results (from best to worst) are:

1) “-vaapi” – output surface in video memory without touching (e.g. dumping to file) them on CPU

2) “-o” – output surface in system memory with touching them on CPU (copy video->system memory is inside MSDK).

3) “-o -vaapi” – output surface in video memory with touching them on CPU (copy video->system memory is on app level).


So your first result is expected, since it is the worst cast in above list.


Mark


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duncanchou
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Hello Mark,

I  understand them clearly from your answer now.

Thank you for your help.

Michael Wu

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Kimi1
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Hi Mark,

 

I have the same problem. I want to ask you about the third case.(“-o -vaapi” – output surface in video memory with touching them on CPU (copy video->system memory is on app level)

In this case,How can we improve copy efficiency from video memory to system memory?  (copy video->system memory is on app level) Because we should use the data in system memory.

Thanks

James

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