Function: mem_flush

Applicability

Product

Supported

Atlas 350 Accelerator Card

Atlas A3 training product/Atlas A3 inference product

Atlas A2 training product/Atlas A2 inference product

Atlas training product

Atlas inference product

Atlas 200I/500 A2 inference product

Description

Flushes cache data to the DDR and invalidates the cache.

In this version, you do not need to care about the cache coherence between the CPU and NPU and therefore this API is unused in this version.

Prototype

  • C Prototype
    1
    aclError aclrtMemFlush(void *devPtr, size_t size)
    
  • Python Function
    1
    ret = acl.rt.mem_flush(dev_ptr, size)
    

Parameters

Parameter

Description

dev_ptr

Int, start address of the DDR memory to be flushed.

size

Int, size of the DDR memory to be flushed, in bytes. The size cannot be 0.

Return Value

Return Value

Description

ret

Int, error code. 0 on success; else, failure.