How to collect GPU memory bandwidth usage data with nsys profiler on Pegasus?

Hello,

We are now looking for ways to profile GPU memory bandwidth data when running CUDA kernels on GPU. However, when we try to use nsys profiler, it reports that the GPUs on Pegasus do not support --gpu-metrics sampling. Is there any other ways to collect information similar to what --gpu-metrics sampling will report?

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Software Version
DRIVE OS Linux 5.2.6
DRIVE OS Linux 5.2.0
DRIVE OS Linux 5.2.0 and DriveWorks 3.5
NVIDIA DRIVE™ Software 10.0 (Linux)
NVIDIA DRIVE™ Software 9.0 (Linux)
other DRIVE OS version
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Target Operating System
Linux
QNX
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Hardware Platform
NVIDIA DRIVE™ AGX Xavier DevKit (E3550)
NVIDIA DRIVE™ AGX Pegasus DevKit (E3550)
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SDK Manager Version
1.6.1.8175
1.6.0.8170
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Host Machine Version
native Ubuntu 18.04
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Thanks.

Dear @yudong.wu,
Could you share the used nsys version? If you used CLI, please share the used command.

Dear @yudong.wu ,
Pegasus do not support --gpu-metrics sampling

It is supported for GPU architecture greater than Turing. It seems you have volta based dGPU?

Hi @SivaRamaKrishnaNV,

Thanks for your comments. It seems that we have TU104 dGPU on our platform, however when we use command nsys profile --gpu-metrics-device=help, it responds that neither GPU devices on Pegasus support the GPU sampling. I am wondering whether --gpu-metrics sampling doesn’t support the Turing GPU on Pegasus? If it is the truth, may I ask whether there are any other profiling tools that we can use to collect information similar to --gpu-metrics, like VRAM read/write bandwidth, SM occupancy, etc?

Thank you so much!

Dear @yudong.wu,
Could you share the CUDA device query sample output

Hi @SivaRamaKrishnaNV,

Here it is:

./deviceQuery
./deviceQuery Starting…

CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)

Detected 2 CUDA Capable device(s)

Device 0: “Graphics Device”
CUDA Driver Version / Runtime Version 10.2 / 10.2
CUDA Capability Major/Minor version number: 7.5
Total amount of global memory: 7680 MBytes (8052998144 bytes)
(44) Multiprocessors, ( 64) CUDA Cores/MP: 2816 CUDA Cores
GPU Max Clock rate: 1440 MHz (1.44 GHz)
Memory Clock rate: 1440 Mhz
Memory Bus Width: 256-bit
L2 Cache Size: 4194304 bytes
Maximum Texture Dimension Size (x,y,z) 1D=(131072), 2D=(131072, 65536), 3D=(16384, 16384, 16384)
Maximum Layered 1D Texture Size, (num) layers 1D=(32768), 2048 layers
Maximum Layered 2D Texture Size, (num) layers 2D=(32768, 32768), 2048 layers
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 49152 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 65536
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per multiprocessor: 1024
Maximum number of threads per block: 1024
Max dimension size of a thread block (x,y,z): (1024, 1024, 64)
Max dimension size of a grid size (x,y,z): (2147483647, 65535, 65535)
Maximum memory pitch: 2147483647 bytes
Texture alignment: 512 bytes
Concurrent copy and kernel execution: Yes with 3 copy engine(s)
Run time limit on kernels: No
Integrated GPU sharing Host Memory: No
Support host page-locked memory mapping: Yes
Alignment requirement for Surfaces: Yes
Device has ECC support: Disabled
Device supports Unified Addressing (UVA): Yes
Device supports Compute Preemption: Yes
Supports Cooperative Kernel Launch: Yes
Supports MultiDevice Co-op Kernel Launch: Yes
Device PCI Domain ID / Bus ID / location ID: 1 / 1 / 0
Compute Mode:
< Default (multiple host threads can use ::cudaSetDevice() with device simultaneously) >

Device 1: “Xavier”
CUDA Driver Version / Runtime Version 10.2 / 10.2
CUDA Capability Major/Minor version number: 7.2
Total amount of global memory: 28305 MBytes (29680066560 bytes)
( 8) Multiprocessors, ( 64) CUDA Cores/MP: 512 CUDA Cores
GPU Max Clock rate: 1109 MHz (1.11 GHz)
Memory Clock rate: 1109 Mhz
Memory Bus Width: 256-bit
L2 Cache Size: 524288 bytes
Maximum Texture Dimension Size (x,y,z) 1D=(131072), 2D=(131072, 65536), 3D=(16384, 16384, 16384)
Maximum Layered 1D Texture Size, (num) layers 1D=(32768), 2048 layers
Maximum Layered 2D Texture Size, (num) layers 2D=(32768, 32768), 2048 layers
Total amount of constant memory: 65536 bytes
Total amount of shared memory per block: 49152 bytes
Total number of registers available per block: 65536
Warp size: 32
Maximum number of threads per multiprocessor: 2048
Maximum number of threads per block: 1024
Max dimension size of a thread block (x,y,z): (1024, 1024, 64)
Max dimension size of a grid size (x,y,z): (2147483647, 65535, 65535)
Maximum memory pitch: 2147483647 bytes
Texture alignment: 512 bytes
Concurrent copy and kernel execution: Yes with 1 copy engine(s)
Run time limit on kernels: No
Integrated GPU sharing Host Memory: Yes
Support host page-locked memory mapping: Yes
Alignment requirement for Surfaces: Yes
Device has ECC support: Disabled
Device supports Unified Addressing (UVA): Yes
Device supports Compute Preemption: Yes
Supports Cooperative Kernel Launch: Yes
Supports MultiDevice Co-op Kernel Launch: Yes
Device PCI Domain ID / Bus ID / location ID: 0 / 0 / 0
Compute Mode:
< Default (multiple host threads can use ::cudaSetDevice() with device simultaneously) >

Peer access from Graphics Device (GPU0) → Xavier (GPU1) : No
Peer access from Xavier (GPU1) → Graphics Device (GPU0) : No

deviceQuery, CUDA Driver = CUDART, CUDA Driver Version = 10.2, CUDA Runtime Version = 10.2, NumDevs = 2
Result = PASS