Function: start

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	√

Starts profiling.

Call acl.prof.start as required during model execution. Only profile data after the API call is collected.

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.

For the API call example, see Profile Data Collection.

Parent topic: Data Profiling APIs