how to count time elapsed in Optix

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#1

I tried this,

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
  float cpu_time;
  cudaEvent_t start,end;
  gpuErrchk(cudaEventCreate(&start));
  gpuErrchk(cudaEventCreate(&end));

  gpuErrchk(cudaEventRecord(start,0));
  tracemain(atoi(argv[1]));
//tracemain() contains functions 
//createContext(), createMaterial(), createGeometry() ... 
//and a function that used to be the main function launching optix 
  gpuErrchk(cudaEventRecord(end,0));
  gpuErrchk(cudaEventSynchronize(end));
  gpuErrchk(cudaEventElapsedTime(&cpu_time,start,end));
  printf("time elapsed: %g us\n", cpu_time*1000);
  printf("time cost %g us\n",cpu_time); 
  return 0;
}

But I got error “invalid resource handle” at line

gpuErrchk(cudaEventRecord(end,0));

Why does this occur?

I also tried

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
  clock_t tstart, tend;
  float cpu_time;
  tstart = clock();
  tracemain(atoi(argv[1]));
  cudaDeviceSynchronize();
  tend = clock();
  cpu_time = (float)(tend-tstart)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC*1000000.f;
  printf("time cost %g us\n",cpu_time); 
  return 0;
}

It works well. But I’m not sure how cudaDeviceSynchronize() affects program performance.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

#2

Is this an OptiX question?

The rtContextLaunch*D methods block until the kernel finishes, so you could just do this:

clock_t start, end;
start = clock();
rtContextLaunch1D( context, entry, width );
end = clock();
printf("OptiX kernel time: %u milliseconds.\n", (end - start) * 1000 / CLOCKS_PER_SEC);