Profile Summary Report - 2023.1 English

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

Document ID
UG1393
Release Date
2023-07-17
Version
2023.1 English

As described in Enabling Profiling in Your Application, the Xilinx Runtime (XRT) collects profiling data on host applications and kernels when specific options are enabled in the xrt.ini file, such as opencl_trace, xrt_native_api, and device_trace. XRT captures profiling data for the host application as it makes calls to the runtime either through OpenCL or XRT API calls. You can also add user calls to your host application to capture additional profiling information, as explained in Custom Profiling of the Host Application. To capture details of the kernel operations, you must implement kernels in the .xclbin using the --profile Options as explained in the next section.

After the application finishes running, the Profile Summary report is saved as .csv files in the directory where the compiled host code is executed. The Profile Summary provides annotated details regarding the overall application performance. All data generated during the execution of the application is grouped into categories. The Profile Summary lets you examine the kernel execution and data transfer statistics.

Tip: The Profile Summary report can be generated for all build configurations. However, with the software emulation build, the report will not include any data transfer details under kernel execution efficiency and data transfer efficiency. This information is only generated in hardware emulation or system builds.

An example of the Profile Summary report is shown below.

Figure 1. Profile Summary