Function: mem_flush

Applicability

Product

Supported (√/x)

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

Function Usage

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)
    

Parameter Description

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. Must not be 0.

Return Value Description

Return Value

Description

ret

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