clCreateSubDevices

Creates an array of sub-devices that each reference a non-intersecting set of compute units within in_device.

`cl_int clCreateSubDevices (`	cl_device_id `in_device` ,
	const cl_device_partition_property `*properties` ,
	cl_uint `num_devices` ,
	cl_device_id `*out_devices` ,
	cl_uint `*num_devices_ret` `)`

Parameters

in_device

The device to be partitioned.

properties

Specifies how in_device is to be partition described by a partition name and its corresponding value. Each partition name is immediately followed by the corresponding desired value. The list is terminated with 0. The list of supported partitioning schemes is described in the table below. Only one of the listed partitioning schemes can be specified in properties.

cl_device_partition_property enum (Partition value) Description

CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_EQUALLY (unsigned int) Split the aggregate device into as many smaller aggregate devices as can be created, each containing n compute units. The value n is passed as the value accompanying this property. If n does not divide evenly into CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_MAX_COMPUTE_UNITS, then the remaining compute units are not used.

CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_COUNTS (unsigned int)

cl_device_partition_property enum (Partition value)	Description
CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_EQUALLY (unsigned int)	Split the aggregate device into as many smaller aggregate devices as can be created, each containing `n` compute units. The value `n` is passed as the value accompanying this property. If `n` does not divide evenly into `CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_MAX_COMPUTE_UNITS`, then the remaining compute units are not used.
CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_COUNTS (unsigned int)	This property is followed by a `CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_COUNTS_LIST_END` terminated list of compute unit counts. For each nonzero count `m` in the list, a sub-device is created with `m` compute units in it. `CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_COUNTS_LIST_END` is defined to be 0. The number of non-zero count entries in the list may not exceed `CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_MAX_SUB_DEVICES`. The total number of compute units specified may not exceed `CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_MAX_COMPUTE_UNITS`.
CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_- AFFINITY_DOMAIN (cl_device_affinity_domain)	Split the device into smaller aggregate devices containing one or more compute units that all share part of a cache hierarchy. The value accompanying this property may be drawn from the following list: `CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_NUMA` - Split the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share a NUMA node. `CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_L4_CACHE` - Split the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share a level 4 data cache. `CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_L3_CACHE` - Split the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share a level 3 data cache. `CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_L2_CACHE` - Split the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share a level 2 data cache. `CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_L1_CACHE` - Split the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share a level 1 data cache. `CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_NEXT_PARTITIONABLE` - Split the device along the next partitionable affinity domain. The implementation shall find the first level along which the device or sub-device may be further subdivided in the order NUMA, L4, L3, L2, L1, and partition the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share memory subsystems at this level. The user may determine what happened by calling clGetDeviceInfo (`CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_TYPE`) on the sub-devices.

This property is followed by a CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_COUNTS_LIST_END terminated list of compute unit counts. For each nonzero count m in the list, a sub-device is created with m compute units in it. CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_COUNTS_LIST_END is defined to be 0.

The number of non-zero count entries in the list may not exceed CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_MAX_SUB_DEVICES.

The total number of compute units specified may not exceed CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_MAX_COMPUTE_UNITS.

CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_- AFFINITY_DOMAIN (cl_device_affinity_domain)

Split the device into smaller aggregate devices containing one or more compute units that all share part of a cache hierarchy. The value accompanying this property may be drawn from the following list:

CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_NUMA - Split the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share a NUMA node.

CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_L4_CACHE - Split the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share a level 4 data cache.

CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_L3_CACHE - Split the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share a level 3 data cache.

CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_L2_CACHE - Split the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share a level 2 data cache.

CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_L1_CACHE - Split the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share a level 1 data cache.

CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_NEXT_PARTITIONABLE - Split the device along the next partitionable affinity domain. The implementation shall find the first level along which the device or sub-device may be further subdivided in the order NUMA, L4, L3, L2, L1, and partition the device into sub-devices comprised of compute units that share memory subsystems at this level.

The user may determine what happened by calling clGetDeviceInfo (CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_TYPE) on the sub-devices.

num_devices

Size of memory pointed to by out_devices specified as the number of cl_device_id entries.

out_devices

The buffer where the OpenCL sub-devices will be returned. If out_devices is NULL, this argument is ignored. If out_devices is not NULL, num_devices must be greater than or equal to the number of sub-devices that device may be partitioned into according to the partitioning scheme specified in properties.

num_devices_ret

Returns the number of sub-devices that device may be partitioned into according to the partitioning scheme specified in properties. If num_devices_ret is NULL, it is ignored.

Notes

Creates an array of sub-devices that each reference a non-intersecting set of compute units within in_device, according to a partition scheme given by properties. The output sub-devices may be used in every way that the root (or parent) device can be used, including creating contexts, building programs, further calls to clCreateSubDevices and creating command-queues. When a command-queue is created against a sub-device, the commands enqueued on the queue are executed only on the sub-device.

Errors

Returns CL_SUCCESS if the partition is created successfully. Otherwise, it returns a NULL value with the following error values returned in errcode_ret:

CL_INVALID_DEVICE if in_device is not valid.
CL_INVALID_VALUE if values specified in properties are not valid or if values specified in properties are valid but not supported by the device.
CL_INVALID_VALUE if out_devices is not NULL and num_devices is less than the number of sub-devices created by the partition scheme.
CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_FAILED if the partition name is supported by the implementation but in_device could not be further partitioned.
CL_INVALID_DEVICE_PARTITION_COUNT if the partition name specified in properties is CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_COUNTS and the number of sub-devices requested exceeds CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_MAX_SUB_DEVICES or the total number of compute units requested exceeds CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_MAX_COMPUTE_UNITS for in_device, or the number of compute units requested for one or more sub-devices is less than zero or the number of sub-devices requested exceeds CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_MAX_COMPUTE_UNITS for in_device.
CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES if there is a failure to allocate resources required by the OpenCL implementation on the device.
CL_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY if there is a failure to allocate resources required by the OpenCL implementation on the host.

Example

A few examples that describe how to specify partition properties in properties argument to clCreateSubDevices are given below.

To partition a device containing 16 compute units into two sub-devices, each containing 8 compute units, pass the following in properties:

{ CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_EQUALLY, 8, 0 }

To partition a device with four compute units into two sub-devices with one sub-device containing 3 compute units and the other sub-device 1 compute unit, pass the following in properties argument:

{ CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_COUNTS, 3, 1, CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_COUNTS_LIST_END, 0 }

To split a device along the outermost cache line (if any), pass the following in properties argument:

{ CL_DEVICE_PARTITION_BY_AFFINITY_DOMAIN, CL_DEVICE_AFFINITY_DOMAIN_NEXT_PARTITIONABLE, 0 }

Specification

OpenCL Specification

Also see

clGetDeviceInfo

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