Intel® Advisor User Guide

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Date 3/22/2024
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select

Select loops (by file and line number, ID, or criteria) for deeper analysis.

GUI Equivalent

To select individual loops/functions: Vectorization and Code Insights > Survey & Roofline >

To select loops/functions with markup strategy for Offload Modeling: Offload Modeling > Analysis Workflow > Dependencies > Markup type

Syntax

--select=<string>

Arguments

<string> is a comma-separated list of file name and line number, loop ID, and/or criteria in the [(r|recursive):]<id>|<file>:<line>|<criteria>[,<id>|<file>:<line>|<criteria>,..] format. Add r: (or recursive:) prefix to select all loops in call trees starting from heads selected by criteria, source location or ID. <criteria> can be one of the following:

Criteria

Description

scalar

Include scalar serial loops.

total-time>N

Include loops above N% of total CPU time.

has-source

Exclude loops without source location.

has-issue

Include loops with Vector Dependence Prevent Vectorization or Possible Inefficient Memory Access Pattern issue.

loop-height=N

Include loops at a specific hierarchical position. 0 = Innermost loops.

markup=name

Select loops using a pre-defined mark-up algorithm. Supported algorithms are:

  • gpu_generic - Select loops executed on a GPU.

  • omp - Select OpenMP* loops.

  • icpx -fsycl - Select SYCL loops.

  • ocl - Select OpenCL™ loops.

  • daal - Select Intel® oneAPI Data Analytics Library loops.

  • tbb - Select Intel® oneAPI Threading Building Blocks loops.

Default

No default argument

Actions Modified

collect

mark-up-loops

NOTE:
With the --collect=projection action, the select option accepts only loop/function IDs and source locations (in the <file-name>:<line> format).

Usage

Use + to combine criteria with AND logic. For example, use --select=scalar+has-source to select all scalar loops that have source location.

NOTE:
Selecting loops of interest can decrease collection overhead.

Do not confuse the mark-up-loops action with the mark-up-list action option. The mark-up-loops action coupled with the select action option enables a GUI checkbox; therefore loop selection persists beyond the duration of the mark-up-loops action and applies to downstream analyses, such as Dependencies and Memory Access Patterns analyses. The collect action coupled with the mark-up-list action option simulates enabling a GUI checkbox; therefore loop selection persists only for the duration of the collect action.

Example

  1. Run a Survey analysis to identify loops of interest.

  2. Select those loops for deeper analysis.

advisor --collect=survey --project-dir=./advi_results -- ./myApplication
advisor --mark-up-loops --select=foo.cpp:34,bar.cpp:192 --project-dir=./advi_results -- ./myApplication

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