Hi,
I was reading the OpenCL specification to understand the mechanisms behind image buffers and the dis/advantages compared to standard buffers.
In the specification of clCreateImage I fond the following assertion:
values cannot be specified in flags
but are inherited from the corresponding memory access qualifiers associated with buffer
Anyway in the function signature I can't find no arg called buffer. What does the assertion refer to with "buffer"?
I also tried to understand the advantages of images using various host/device access modes, but all the references I found talk about read-only and write-only images, while the OpenCL specification seems not to require an image to be read or write only.
Can you give me some hints regarding state-of-the-art kernel and host access performances (e.g. caching) in the various read-only, write-only and read-write situations?
Thank you very much!