In the description of “ cudaFree ” API there is a note: Note - This API will not perform any implicit synchronization when the pointer was allocated with cudaMallocAsync or cudaMallocFromPoolAsync. Callers must ensure that all accesses to the pointer have completed before invoking cudaFree. For best …

[Public] Hi xiaoping.duan , We are glad to let you know we will indicate " For all other pointers, this API may perform implicit synchronization." in the cudaFree API description in future releases . (probably next second 12.x release after latest 12.4 ) Thanks again for filing a bug ticket and…

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Ambiguity in the description of cudaFree API?

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Robert_Crovella December 8, 2023, 7:39pm 2

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