Single Out-of-Order Command Queue - 2020.2 English

Vitis Unified Software Platform Documentation: Application Acceleration Development (UG1393)

Document ID
UG1393
Release Date
2021-03-22
Version
2020.2 English

The following figure shows an example with a single out-of-order command queue. The scheduler can dispatch commands from the queue in any order. You must manually define event dependencies and synchronizations as required.

Figure 1. Example with Single Out-of-Order Command Queue

The following is code extracted from host.cpp of the concurrent_kernel_execution_c example that sets up a single out-of-order command queue and enqueues commands as needed:

    OCL_CHECK(
        err,
        cl::CommandQueue ooo_queue(context,
                                   device,
                                   CL_QUEUE_PROFILING_ENABLE |
                                       CL_QUEUE_OUT_OF_ORDER_EXEC_MODE_ENABLE,
                                   &err));
...
    printf("[OOO Queue]: Enqueueing scale kernel\n");
    OCL_CHECK(
        err,
        err = ooo_queue.enqueueTask(
            kernel_mscale,nullptr, &ooo_events[0]));
    set_callback(ooo_events[0], "scale");
...
    // This is an out of order queue, events can be executed in any order. Since
    // this call depends on the results of the previous call we must pass the
    // event object from the previous call to this kernel's event wait list.
    printf("[OOO Queue]: Enqueueing addition kernel (Depends on scale)\n");
    kernel_wait_events.resize(0);
    kernel_wait_events.push_back(ooo_events[0]);
    OCL_CHECK(err,
              err = ooo_queue.enqueueTask(
                  kernel_madd,
                  &kernel_wait_events, // Event from previous call
                  &ooo_events[1]));
    set_callback(ooo_events[1], "addition");
    // This call does not depend on previous calls so we are passing nullptr
    // into the event wait list. The runtime should schedule this kernel in
    // parallel to the previous calls.
    printf("[OOO Queue]: Enqueueing matrix multiplication kernel\n");
    OCL_CHECK(err,
              err = ooo_queue.enqueueTask(
                  kernel_mmult,
                  nullptr,
                  &ooo_events[2]));
    set_callback(ooo_events[2], "matrix multiplication");

The Application Timeline view shows that the compute unit mmult_1 is running in parallel with the compute units mscale_1 and madd_1, using both multiple in-order queues and single out-of-order queue methods.

Figure 2. Application Timeline View Showing mult_1 Running with mscale_1 and madd_1