Hi,
I'm using a 5770 with ATI Stream 2.1 on Win7 64bit, in a 64bit process. I have long-lived contexts, programs, kernels and make cl_mem buffers and tear them down frequently.
The library does not appear to properly refcount down / release the cl_mem objects.. for example (assume all setup is done):
cl_mem inputImageBuffer;
cl_mem tempImageBuffer;
cl_mem outputImageBuffer;
inputImageBuffer = clCreateBuffer(context,CL_MEM_READ_ONLY,width * height * 4,0,&status);
outputImageBuffer = clCreateBuffer(context,CL_MEM_READ_WRITE,width * height * 4,0,&status);
tempImageBuffer = clCreateBuffer(context,CL_MEM_READ_WRITE,width * height * 4,0,&status);
/* Execute some kernels, etc. etc. */
status = clReleaseMemObject(inputImageBuffer);
status = clReleaseMemObject(tempImageBuffer);
status = clReleaseMemObject(outputImageBuffer);
If you repeat this code N times, it will eventually fail to allocate the buffers at the top. N varies with width*height size, so it looks like a leak. I *am* however executing this code from many separate threads, abeit inside a critical section.
So, unless I've done something stupid (wouldn't be the first time ), either a.) A bug is preventing buffer release or b.) Using openCL from many threads, even though properly critical sectioned, is broken.
Thanks is advance for any advice.
AndyS