HSA microbenchmarks

This repository contains a set of microbenchmarks for determining the hardware characteristics of HSA devices.

Details for Kaveri (AMD A10-7850K) can be found via a blog post at ...

Caches

This folder contains code and data (for AMD A10-7850K) for determining the cache capacity, cache associativity, cache miss latencies, etc. Additionally, this same code can be used to determine the TLB size/associativity/miss latency/etc.

Requirements to run

• HSA Runtime and Drivers from AMD
  • See http://github.com/HSAFoundation for installation details
• These projects use the SNACK framework to execute on the HSA device
  • SNACK is part of the CLOC project from the HSA Foundation (found in the repo above)
• I've only tested this code on Linux. The code should be mostly OS agnostic, however.

License

This code is free for anyone to use / modify. This work has been completed as part of my PhD studies at UW-Madison under the guidance of Mark Hill and David Wood. More about us can be found at
http://cs.wisc.edu/multifacet
http://cs.wisc.edu/~powerjg
http://cs.wisc.edu/~markhill
http://cs.wisc.edu/~david