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11 years ago

Kernel Vectorization

hi ========================================================== void tempA( ...) {...}; void tempB( ...) {...}; void processing(global int *a){ if(a == 0) tempA( a...
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11 years ago

It means that one of your branches is thread ID dependent. So the follow section 

while(a == 0)
  processing(&a);

is thread-id dependent. Best practices guide states to avoid work-item dependent backwards branching.