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Question about fcvSetOperationMode
da.teng
Join Date: 20 Jun 21
Posts: 16
Posted: Fri, 2021-07-16 11:17

I'm running sample code using FastCV on QRB5165, which I think is the same as Snapdragon 865. The main ARM core is Cortex-A77. The is a cDSP Hexagon 698 available on the SOC. I have questions about fcvSetOperationMode. The following is the doc for the enum:

FASTCV_OP_LOW_POWER

Target-optimized implementation uses lowest power consuming implementation.

FASTCV_OP_PERFORMANCE

Target-optimized implementation uses highest performance implementation.

FASTCV_OP_CPU_OFFLOAD

Target-optimized implementation offloads as much of the CPU as possible.

FASTCV_OP_CPU_PERFORMANCE

Target-optimized implementation uses CPU highest performance implementation.

FASTCV_OP_RESERVED

Values >= 0x80000000 are reserved.

FASTCV_OP_LOW_POWER says it uses lowest power consuming implementation, which means it should use the DSP implementation. FAST_OP_CPU_OFFLOAD says it offloads from CPU much as possible, which also suggest it should use the DSP. But when I run some image processing functions on the SOC, for example, Gaussian 3x3 8bit, FASTCV_OP_LOW_POWER  gives 25.7ms while FAST_OP_CPU_OFFLOAD uses 19.8ms. What's the reason for this?

Another question is about FASTCV_OP_PERFORMANCE vs. FASTCV_OP_CPU_PERFORMANCE. Based on their discription, I should expect same performance from these two modes and CPU has the highest performance on this SOC. But I'm see different results: FASTCV_OP_PERFORMANCE: 3.6ms vs. FASTCV_OP_CPU_PERFORMANCE: 1.8ms.

 

Can someone please shed some light on this?

 

Thanks

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jeff4s Moderator
Join Date: 4 Nov 12
Posts: 106
Posted: Wed, 2021-07-21 15:05

Hi,

For stable profiling results you can loop 100x or 1000x times to average out the noise.

Also please refer to this post to follow the proper init/deinit procedure:

https://developer.qualcomm.com/forum/qdn-forums/software/fastcv-computer...

Cheers,

-Jeff

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