Function: start

Product	Supported (√/x)
Ascend 950PR/Ascend 950DT	√
Atlas A3 training products/Atlas A3 inference products	√
Atlas A2 training products/Atlas A2 inference products	√
Atlas training products	√
Atlas inference products	√
Atlas 200I/500 A2 inference products	√

Starts profile data collection.

You can call the acl.prof.start API as required during model execution. The data collected by Profiling is the data after the API is called.

C Prototype

aclError aclprofStart(const aclprofConfig *profilerConfig)

Parameter	Description
profiler_config	Int, profiling configuration. Call acl.prof.create_config to create data of the aclprofConfig type in advance.

Parameter

Description

profiler_config

Int, profiling configuration.

Call acl.prof.create_config to create data of the aclprofConfig type in advance.

Return Value	Description
ret	Int, error code. 0 indicates success. Other values indicate failure.

Use this API together with the acl.prof.stop API. Call acl.prof.start first and then acl.prof.stop.

Parent topic: Profiling Data Collection APIs