cuBlas - MemCopy problem

Hello everyone,

i used cuBlas function cublasDgetrfBatched() to evalute LU decomposition of square matrix, here is the code:

void cublas_lu(double *a, int n, int batchsize )
{
cublasInit();
cublasHandle_t handle;
cublasCreate_v2(&handle);
int *P, *INFO;
double *a_d;

cudaMalloc(&P, n * batchsize * sizeof(int));
cudaMalloc(&INFO, batchsize * sizeof(int));

cudaMalloc(&a_d, n * n * sizeof(double));
cudaMemcpy(a_d, a, n * n * sizeof(double),cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);

double *A = { a_d };
double ** A_d;

cudaMalloc<double*>(&A_d,sizeof(A));
cudaMemcpy(A_d,A,sizeof(A),cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);

cublasDgetrfBatched(handle,n,A_d,n,P,INFO,batchsize);

cudaMemcpy( a, a_d, n * n * sizeof(double),cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
cublasDestroy_v2(handle);
}

Everything works fine, but last copying data from device to host:

cudaMemcpy( a, a_d, n * n * sizeof(double),cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);

take too long time, for matrix 10000x10000 take unbelievable about ~260 sec…
Typical time for copying this amount of data should take ~1-2 sec. max.
Interisting thing is, when i run code without cublasDgetrfBatched(), copying of data take “normal” time 2-3 sec. what was expected.

I tried cudaDeviceSynchronize(), cudaMemcpyAsync(), cublasGetMatrix() and nothing works :(

Anybody can help?

It’s because the cublasDgetrfBatched routine is taking that long for such a large matrix.
The cudaMemcpy appears to take a long time because it is waiting for the cublas routine to finish (as it should).

The routines cublasDgetrfBatched and DgetriBatched are intended for use with decomposition/inversion of a batch of small matrices. This is mentioned in the documentation:

[url]http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cublas/index.html#cublas-lt-t-gt-getrfbatched[/url]

“This function is intended to be used for matrices of small sizes where the launch overhead is a significant factor.”

Use another method for LU decomposition/inversion of a large matrix.