[Openmp-commits] [PATCH] D113140: [OpenMP][NFCI] Introduce the kernel environment for target regions

[Johannes Doerfert via Phabricator via Openmp-commits]

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In D113140#3123162 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D113140#3123162>, @ye-luo wrote:

>> the kernel environment which contains information passed by the compiler to a GPU kernel.
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> DId you mean this environment is baked into kernel at compile time? So there is no additional H2D cost at each call, right?

Yes, this environment is a constant fed into the kernel at compile time.
It will allow us to pass more information, e.g., if you want to support sequentialiazed parallel regions, in a way that caused the "feature" to be removed during compilation.
It also allows us to communicate dynamic information in a way that will make us pay for it only if we "enable" it, e.g., if you don't want printf support on AMDGPU you don't have to pay for a buffer.


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