Hello everybody,
I would like to know whether once a device memory location (or an array) has been bound to Texture memory are we allowed to use the original device memory for other tasks.
thanks
No. Binding the texture just creates a “texture reference” that describes the base address, format, and interpretation (e.g. whether to convert int->float) of the underlying memory.
For coherency, the driver invalidates the texture cache whenever you launch a kernel that reads via texture.
(Caveat: Apps should never texture from and modify the same memory in the same kernel. That behavior is undefined.)