NPU Performance Analysis

Obtain NPU performance diagnostics and understand performance metrics.

Please refer to the upgrade guide.

1. Uninstall the NPU module:

$ sudo rmmod galcore

2. Reinstall NPU module:

$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/amlogic/npu/galcore.ko gpuProfiler=1 showArgs=1

$ export VIV_VX_PROFILE=1
$ export VIV_VX_DEBUG_LEVEL=1

Here is a sample using the inception example to run on the NPU.

$ aml_npu_demo_binaries/inceptionv3/VIM3$ ./run.sh
#productname=VIPNano-QI, pid=0x88
Created VX Thread: 0xa69a21c0
Create Neural Network: 59ms or 59455us
Verify...
generate command buffer, device count=1, core count per-device: 1,
---------------------------Begin VerifyTiling -------------------------
AXI-SRAM = 1048576 Bytes VIP-SRAM = 522240 Bytes SWTILING_PHASE_FEATURES[1, 1, 0]
  0 NBG [(   0    0    0 0,        0, 0x(nil)(0x(nil), 0x(nil)) ->    0    0    0 0,        0, 0x(nil)(0x(nil), 0x(nil))) k(0 0    0,        0) pad(0 0) pool(0 0, 0 0)]
 
 id IN [ x  y  w   h ]   OUT  [ x  y  w  h ] (tx, ty, kpc) (ic, kc, kc/ks, ks/eks, kernel_type)
   0 NBG DD 0x(nil) [   0    0        0        0] -> DD 0x(nil) [   0    0        0        0] (  0,   0,   0) (       0,        0, 0.000000%, 0.000000%, NONE)
 
PreLoadWeightBiases = 1048576  100.000000%
---------------------------End VerifyTiling -------------------------
Verify Graph: 0ms or 823us
Start run graph [1] times...
layer id: 0 layer name:network_binary_graph operation[0]:unkown operation type target:unkown operation target.
uid: 0
op_abs_id: 0
execution time:             20845 us
[     1] TOTAL_READ_BANDWIDTH  (MByte): 71.703380
[     2] TOTAL_WRITE_BANDWIDTH (MByte): 17.810649
[     3] AXI_READ_BANDWIDTH  (MByte): 30.981305
[     4] AXI_WRITE_BANDWIDTH (MByte): 14.130429
[     5] DDR_READ_BANDWIDTH (MByte): 40.722075
[     6] DDR_WRITE_BANDWIDTH (MByte): 3.680220
[     7] GPUTOTALCYCLES: 16697255
[     8] GPUIDLECYCLES: 296080
VPC_ELAPSETIME: 21124
*********
Run the 1 time: 21.00ms or 21609.00us
vxProcessGraph execution time:
Total   21.00ms or 21625.00us
Average 21.62ms or 21625.00us
 --- Top5 ---
  2: 0.833984
795: 0.009102
974: 0.003592
408: 0.002207
393: 0.002111
Exit VX Thread: 0xa69a21c0

• GPUTOTALCYCLES : Total number of cycles.
• GPUIDLECYCLES : Number of cycles in idle state.

Usage rate = (GPUTOTALCYCLES-GPUIDLECYCLES)/GPUTOTALCYCLES.