the strange performance of TK1 when processing the image in canny.

#include “cuda_runtime_api.h”
#include “device_launch_parameters.h”

#include <math.h>
#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>
#include <opencv2/gpu/gpu.hpp>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include “local_timer.h”

#define PIC_WIDE 720
#define PIC_HIGH 576

uchar image_buf[PIC_WIDE*PIC_HIGH];
cv::Mat image(PIC_HIGH, PIC_WIDE, CV_8UC1, image_buf);

using namespace cv;

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
FILE * video_stream;
int frame_cnt = 200;

#ifdef LINUX
setenv(“DISPLAY”,“:0”,0);
char dir = “./grayx.yuv”;
#else
char dir = “F:\video\grayx.yuv”;
#endif

video_stream = fopen(dir,"rb");
uchar *image_d;
uchar *edge_d;
size_t pitch;

cudaMallocPitch((void **)&image_d, &pitch, PIC_WIDE, PIC_HIGH);
cudaMallocPitch((void **)&edge_d, &pitch, PIC_WIDE, PIC_HIGH);

gpu::GpuMat image_device(PIC_HIGH, PIC_WIDE, CV_8UC1, image_d);
gpu::GpuMat edge_device(PIC_HIGH, PIC_WIDE, CV_8UC1, edge_d);
image_device.step = pitch;
edge_device.step = pitch;

local_timer tick;

while (frame_cnt--) {
	fread(image_buf, 1, PIC_WIDE * PIC_HIGH, video_stream);

	if (frame_cnt < 100) {
		tick.start();
		cudaMemcpy2D(image_device.data, image_device.step, image_buf, PIC_WIDE, PIC_WIDE, PIC_HIGH, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
		gpu::Canny(image_device,edge_device,100,60);
		//cudaDeviceSynchronize();
		cudaMemcpy2D(image_buf, PIC_WIDE, edge_device.data, edge_device.step, PIC_WIDE, PIC_HIGH, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
		tick.out("gpu");
		cv::imshow("calculate by gpu", image);
	} else {
		tick.start();
		cv::Mat edge;
		cv::Canny(image, edge, 100, 60);
		tick.out("cpu");
		cv::imshow("calculate by cpu", edge);
	}

	cvWaitKey(30);
}

fclose(video_stream);
return 0;

}

ubuntu@tegra-ubuntu:/win.doc$ ./open_gpu
cpu used:4.089000
cpu used:7.563000
cpu used:3.510000
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ubuntu@tegra-ubuntu:/win.doc$

the gpu is more slower than arm, that right

by use of nvprof, i have find out the cv::canny throughly not use the GPU, if call gpu::canny, the slowest api is
edgesHysteresisLocalKernel(PtrStepSzi map, short2* st), it will spend about 8ms,other kernel api will spends 3 ~ 4ms,
atlast the transform api will spen 1ms.

add up several useless call of cudafree,cudamalloc , it will spend 25 ms per image.