Problem when trying to streaming using cudaHostAlloc Error: setting the device when a process is act

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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Hi,

I’m trying to use cudaHostAlloc to allocate a page-locked host memory so as to get a speedup when transfer this to device memory and further for streaming.

cutilSafeCall(cudaHostAlloc( (void**)&db, MAX_DB_SIZE * sizeof(char), cudaHostAllocDefault ) );

The weird thing is at first, I did get it run and find that after the page-locked allocation, the data transfer(40MB) time drops from 150ms down to 0.25ms(amazingly huge improvement). But after several tries, I got error reported as

“cutilCheckMsg() CUTIL CUDA error : Kernel execution failed : setting the device when a process is active is not allowed.”

after the kernel check.

Anyone has some experience of this? Please help get me out of here… Thanks

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Hi,

I’m trying to use cudaHostAlloc to allocate a page-locked host memory so as to get a speedup when transfer this to device memory and further for streaming.

cutilSafeCall(cudaHostAlloc( (void**)&db, MAX_DB_SIZE * sizeof(char), cudaHostAllocDefault ) );

The weird thing is at first, I did get it run and find that after the page-locked allocation, the data transfer(40MB) time drops from 150ms down to 0.25ms(amazingly huge improvement). But after several tries, I got error reported as

“cutilCheckMsg() CUTIL CUDA error : Kernel execution failed : setting the device when a process is active is not allowed.”

after the kernel check.

Anyone has some experience of this? Please help get me out of here… Thanks