How does GTX480(Fermi) schedule thread blocks?

[bowuwm]

I wonder how does Fermi GPU schedule thread blocks. Is it in round-robin fashion? That is, it schedules the (i)th block to the (i % (num. of SMs))th SM. Let’s assume linear blocks.

[tmurray]

it is not round robin. depends on SM load/free slots.

[vvolkov]

I wonder how does Fermi GPU schedule thread blocks. Is it in round-robin fashion? That is, it schedules the (i)th block to the (i % (num. of SMs))th SM. Let’s assume linear blocks.

you can try to figure it out for your particular kernel by reading clock() when every thread block starts and dumping it to memory.