Coalescing access

Hi,

I have studied the Coalescing access ,but i can’t understand.can you recommend book or guide for me?and the follow code,which the value of offest can Coalesce access ,and why?


// includes, system

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <string.h>

#include <math.h>

#include <time.h>

#include <cutil_inline.h>

#include <cuda.h>

#include <cutil.h>

global void test(float *d_in,float *d_out,int offest)

{

int tid=blockIdx.x*blockDim.x+threadIdx.x+offest;

d_out[tid]=d_in[tid];

}

int main()

{ int i,m=16;

// Allocate host memory for the signal

float * h_idata = (float *)malloc(sizeof(float) * 512);

float * h_odata = (float *)malloc(sizeof(float) * 512);

for ( i =0; i <512; i++)

h_idata[i] =8.0f;

float *d_idata;

cudaMalloc( (void**)&d_idata, sizeof(float) * 512);

    float *d_odata;

cudaMalloc( (void**)&d_odata, sizeof(float) * 512);

cudaMemcpy( d_idata,h_idata,sizeof(float) * 512, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice ); 

test<<<2,256>>>(d_idata,d_odata,m);

cudaMemcpy(h_odata,d_odata, sizeof(float)* 512, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);

for(i=0;i<512;i++)

printf(“%d:%f\n”,i,h_odata[i]);

return 0;

}

Could you rephrase your question. it very messy and not sure what is your question. If you have an offset the access are not coalesced since it access every offset element. The problem is that the memory transacations are made per warp and they have to be chunks of size 32, 64 or 128 byte. So if offset is lets n, it will have to make n times more calls as compared to offset=0, because it will load useless data as well.