Kernel construction with four inputs

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#1

Hi,

when reading someone else’s code, I got one initialization with the kernel init code
kernel1<<<1, 256, 2048*32, 0>>>

Normally, the first two parameters are the number of blocks and threads, and sometimes using the third and fourth when using concurrent memory copy and execution such as
kernel2<<<1, 256, 0, stream2>>>

what does it mean in kernel1 construction?
Thanks!

#2

That is dynamic shared memory size. See Programming Guide :: CUDA Toolkit Documentation

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#3

Thanks!