cudaMemcpyToSymbolAsync

I am trying to use cudaMemCpyToSymbolAsync, but must be passing parameters incorrectly. In the function simpleTest, cudaMemCpyToSymbol appears to execute, but cudaMemCpyToSymbolAsync gives error value 11 – invalid argument. What am I doing wrong?

My “big picture” objective is to do calculations in a kernel in stream[1]. When a certain time period passes, I will use stream[2] to upload a flag to the device. stream[1] will poll this variable periodically. When the flag is set, stream[1] will terminate (after doing some finalizing steps). Is there a better way to do this? What is more efficient for polling – global, constant, or pinned memory?

unsigned int h_testVar[2];
device unsigned int d_testVar[2];

void chkCudaReturn(cudaError_t err, unsigned int myErrLoc)
{
if (!err == cudaSuccess)
{
printf(“\a\a\n***ERROR CUDA ERROR %u\n”, myErrLoc);
printf(“Error Val %u\n”,err);
printf(cudaGetErrorString(err));
}
}

void simpleTest()
{
h_testVar[0] = 100;
h_testVar[1] = 200;
cudaStream_t stream[2];
for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i) cudaStreamCreate(&stream[i]);
//Good One
chkCudaReturn(cudaMemcpyToSymbol (d_testVar, h_testVar, sizeof(h_testVar), 0, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice),1);
//Bad One
chkCudaReturn(cudaMemcpyToSymbolAsync (d_testVar, h_testVar, sizeof(h_testVar), 0, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice, stream[1]),2);
chkCudaReturn(cudaGetLastError(),3);

}

I got the same problem using CUDA 3.2 and the 263.06 Driver on Windows XP!

The Function will only work with stream = 0 means not asynchron.

Hi,
I have the same problem External Image
Do you know if it’s fixed in cuda 4.0 ??

Thanks,
Greg

Hello again,
here’s the news. You don’t need to upgrade to 4.0RC to fix it.
Just install the newest driver (the one that comes with 4.0RC). I believe I have 270.28 for notebooks right now.
It solved the problem and my streams work fine, now.

Hope it’ll help you guys.
Regards,
Greg.

Hello,

The synchronous call (cudaMemcpyToSymbol) works because host memory doesn’t need to be page-locked. However, in the asynchronous call (cudaMemcpyToSymbolAsync), host memory must be page-locked. Thus, h_testVar must be allocated with cudaMallocHost() or cudaHostAlloc() before using it. For example:

int *h_testVar = cudaMallocHost((void**)&h_testVar, sizeof(int) * 2);

h_testVar[0] = 100;

  h_testVar[1] = 200;

cudaMemcpyToSymbolAsync (d_testVar, h_testVar, sizeof(int) * 2, 0, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice );

Regards,

Carlos.