Re: OpenACC Firstprivate

[Nathan Sidwell <nathan@acm.org>]

On 11/09/15 08:59, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> On 11/09/15 08:46, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 08:50:28AM -0500, Nathan Sidwell wrote:

>
>> Say
>>    int arr[64];
>> // initialize arr
>> #pragma acc data copyin (arr)
>> {
>>    // modify arr on the host
>>    # pragma acc parallel firstprivate (arr)
>>    {
>>      ...
>>    }
>> }
>
> Hm, I suspect that is either ill formed or the std does not contemplate.

just realized, there are two ways to consider the above.

1) it's  ill formed.   Once you've transferred data to the device, modifying it 
on the host is unspecified.  I'm having trouble finding words in the std that 
actually say that though :(

2) on a system with shared physical global memory, the host modification would 
be visiable on the device (possibly at an arbitrary point due to lack of 
synchronization primitive?)

I don't think this changes 'why not use OpenMP's ...' question, because IIUC you 
think that can be made to DTRT anyway?

nathan