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2 years ago
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What causes OpenCL to insert arbitration for local memory accesses?

I know FPGA OpenCL is deprecated in favor of OneAPI, but I hope you can help me anyway. I've created a MWE of a kernel for which the compiler inserts arbitration: __attribute__((uses_global_work_o...
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    2 years ago

    Oh, the video gave me a hint. The compiler inserts redundant arbitration because the next iteration of the n_tics loop can start before the previous one has finished. So tmp = frontier[i] could be concurrent with frontier[dsts[src]] += 50... So the fix was to add #pragma disable_loop_pipelining to the n_tics loop to tell aoc that iterations of the outer loop can't be concurrent.