How to reduce CPU utilization when running a CUDA program on TX2 platform

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson TX2
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Hi,
On TX2, When I run a CUDA program (using GPU to process something), the CPU utilization is almost 100%. According to NVIDIA documents, I use cudaSetDeviceFlags(cudaDeviceScheduleBlockingSync) in the initialization of the program, but it is useless (while this method is useful on X86 platform). How to reduce a CUDA program’s CPU utilization? Thanks.

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Hi,

Could you profile your program with nvprof first?
This will help us figure out the major tasks of CPU and be able to give a further suggestion.

sudo ./nvprof -o data.nvvp [your program]

Thanks.

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hi,AastaLLL,

I solve this issue after installing the newest jetpack, thanks.