In heterogeneous computing system, processing is not only in the CPU.
Some tasks can be delegated to devices working in parallel.
When mixing network activity with task processing there may be the need
to put in communication the CPU with the device in order to synchronize
operations.
The purpose of this flag is to allow the CPU and the GPU to
exchange ACKs. A possible use-case is described below.
CPU:
- Trigger some task on the GPU
- Prepare some data
- Signal to the GPU the data is ready updating the communication flag
GPU:
- Do some pre-processing
- Wait for more data from the CPU polling on the communication flag
- Consume the data prepared by the CPU
Signed-off-by: Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com>
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