Hi Jakub!

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:54:26 +0100, I wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:26:49 +0100, Tom de Vries <tom_devr...@mentor.com> 
> wrote:
> > [...] [OpenACC] kernels region [...]
> > that parloops does not manage to parallelize:

> Telling from real-world code that we've been having a look at, when the
> above situation happens, we're -- in the vast majority of all cases -- in
> a situation where we generally want to avoid offloading (unless
> explicitly requested), "to avoid data copy penalty" as well as typically
> much slower single-threaded execution on the GPU.  Obviously, that will
> have to be revisited as parloops (or any other mechanism in GCC) is able
> to better understand/use the parallelism in OpenACC kernels constructs.
> 
> So, building upon Tom's patch, I have implemented an "avoid offloading"
> flag given the presence of one un-parallelized OpenACC kernels construct.
> This is currently only enabled for OpenACC kernels constructs, in
> combination with nvptx offloading, but I think the general scheme will be
> useful also for other constructs as well as other (non-shared memory)
> offloading targets.

> Committed to gomp-4_0-branch in r232709:
> 
> commit 41a76d233e714fd7b79dc1f40823f607c38306ba
> Author: tschwinge <tschwinge@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>
> Date:   Thu Jan 21 21:52:50 2016 +0000
> 
>     Un-parallelized OpenACC kernels constructs with nvptx offloading: "avoid 
> offloading"

Thought I'd check before porting it over -- will such a patch also be
accepted for trunk?


Grüße
 Thomas

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