Reply by Yong Yang April 26, 20042004-04-26

Hi, Ganesh

Pls see the answers below,

What are the functions that you are trying to profile ?

All major functions in the encoder

What are your project settings ?

Function Profile Debug, Speed most Critical, Opt level:File, Program Level OPt: No External Var Refs, RTS Modifications: Defns no Funcs, Memory Models: Far Calls & Data, RTS CAlls:Use Memory Model

What is your memory allocation pattern ?

ISDRAM base:0x0, length:40000, heap size :0x20000

SDRAM base:0x80000000, length:0x5000000, heap size: 0x3000000

All code and data are loaded to SDRAM, L2 cache 256k enabled

What is the frequency of your DSP ?

DM 642  600MHZ

Have you optimized your code or are you trying to cross-compile the code ?

Optimazed on Pentium 3.2G PC, speed around 80fps. Now on DSP only 2fps, need realtime 15fps

How are you profiling ? Are you using clock() functions or TIMER module ?

Using profiler tool. Under menu->Start new Sesseion, then select profile area. No clock() functions or TIMER module

Thanks

Yong

Ganesh Vijayan <g...@emuzed.com> wrote:

Hi Yong,
Mike Dunn wrote appropriately that Beware of your profiling. Kindly tell me the following to help you to profile your code better:
  • What are the functions that you are trying to profile ?
  • What are your project settings ?
  • What is your memory allocation pattern ?
  • What is the frequency of your DSP ?
  • Have you optimized your code or are you trying to cross-compile the code ?
  • How are you profiling ? Are you using clock() functions or TIMER module ? If so, can you share your settings with us. I guess 3rd answer should be a true indicator of your encoder's performance.
If you can shed some light on the above, then it would be helpful to point out your problem.
Hope this helps.
Ganesh
----- Original Message -----
From: Yong Yang
To: Jeff Brower
Cc: c...@yahoogroups.com ; C...@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [c6x] How to speed up profiling

Hi, Jeff
 
The simple loopback is working. Actually i got it from a TI sample program of EVM DM642, called "scaling", which gets captured video and outputs to TV. I simply changed the output to the internal buffer of my encoder. Maybe shall i remove all the code about display?
 
You can find this sample from C:\ti\boards\evmdm642\examples\video\driver\, if you installed CCS in C:\ti\.
 
Thanks
Yong

Jeff Brower <j...@signalogic.com> wrote:
Yong Yang-

> I am profiling my video encoder program on TI DM642 EVM. It's extremely slow. 17
> hours has passed but it even has not encoded one frame! Any way to speed it up?

I'd be happy to help you with some advice, since we are working with DM642 EVM board
also.

It sounds like you are sort of stuck with basic things that need to be fixed before
you can even think about video encoder performance.

Could you answer my previous first? I need to know if you could get simple loopback
working, without your video codec. I cannot help you unless you answer my questions.

-Jeff



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