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          Copyright Oliver Kowalke 2017.
 Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
    (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
          http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
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[#cuda]
[section:cuda CUDA]

[@http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone/ CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)] is a platform for parallel computing
on NVIDIA GPUs. The application programming interface of CUDA gives access to
GPU's instruction set and computation resources (Execution of compute kernels).


[heading Synchronization with CUDA streams]

CUDA operation such as compute kernels or memory transfer (between host and
device) can be grouped/queued by CUDA streams. are executed on the GPUs.
Boost.Fiber enables a fiber to sleep (suspend) till a CUDA stream has completed
its operations. This enables applications to run other fibers on the CPU without
the need to spawn an additional OS-threads. And resume the fiber when the CUDA
streams has finished.

        __global__
        void kernel( int size, int * a, int * b, int * c) {
            int idx = threadIdx.x + blockIdx.x * blockDim.x;
            if ( idx < size) {
                int idx1 = (idx + 1) % 256;
                int idx2 = (idx + 2) % 256;
                float as = (a[idx] + a[idx1] + a[idx2]) / 3.0f;
                float bs = (b[idx] + b[idx1] + b[idx2]) / 3.0f;
                c[idx] = (as + bs) / 2;
            }
        }

        boost::fibers::fiber f([&done]{
            cudaStream_t stream;
            cudaStreamCreate( & stream);
            int size = 1024 * 1024;
            int full_size = 20 * size;
            int * host_a, * host_b, * host_c;
            cudaHostAlloc( & host_a, full_size * sizeof( int), cudaHostAllocDefault);
            cudaHostAlloc( & host_b, full_size * sizeof( int), cudaHostAllocDefault);
            cudaHostAlloc( & host_c, full_size * sizeof( int), cudaHostAllocDefault);
            int * dev_a, * dev_b, * dev_c;
            cudaMalloc( & dev_a, size * sizeof( int) );
            cudaMalloc( & dev_b, size * sizeof( int) );
            cudaMalloc( & dev_c, size * sizeof( int) );
            std::minstd_rand generator;
            std::uniform_int_distribution<> distribution(1, 6);
            for ( int i = 0; i < full_size; ++i) {
                host_a[i] = distribution( generator);
                host_b[i] = distribution( generator);
            }
            for ( int i = 0; i < full_size; i += size) {
                cudaMemcpyAsync( dev_a, host_a + i, size * sizeof( int), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice, stream);
                cudaMemcpyAsync( dev_b, host_b + i, size * sizeof( int), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice, stream);
                kernel<<< size / 256, 256, 0, stream >>>( size, dev_a, dev_b, dev_c);
                cudaMemcpyAsync( host_c + i, dev_c, size * sizeof( int), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost, stream);
            }
            auto result = boost::fibers::cuda::waitfor_all( stream); // suspend fiber till CUDA stream has finished
            BOOST_ASSERT( stream == std::get< 0 >( result) );
            BOOST_ASSERT( cudaSuccess == std::get< 1 >( result) );
            std::cout << "f1: GPU computation finished" << std::endl;
            cudaFreeHost( host_a);
            cudaFreeHost( host_b);
            cudaFreeHost( host_c);
            cudaFree( dev_a);
            cudaFree( dev_b);
            cudaFree( dev_c);
            cudaStreamDestroy( stream);
        });
        f.join();


[heading Synopsis]

        #include <boost/fiber/cuda/waitfor.hpp>

        namespace boost {
        namespace fibers {
        namespace cuda {

        std::tuple< cudaStream_t, cudaError_t > waitfor_all( cudaStream_t st);
        std::vector< std::tuple< cudaStream_t, cudaError_t > > waitfor_all( cudaStream_t ... st);

        }}}


[ns_function_heading cuda..waitfor]

    #include <boost/fiber/cuda/waitfor.hpp>

    namespace boost {
    namespace fibers {
    namespace cuda {

    std::tuple< cudaStream_t, cudaError_t > waitfor_all( cudaStream_t st);
    std::vector< std::tuple< cudaStream_t, cudaError_t > > waitfor_all( cudaStream_t ... st);

    }}}

[variablelist
[[Effects:] [Suspends active fiber till CUDA stream has finished its operations.]]
[[Returns:] [tuple of stream reference and the CUDA stream status]]
]


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