public static extern cudnnStatus cudnnFindConvolutionBackwardDataAlgorithm( cudnnHandle handle,
cudnnFilterDescriptor filterDesc,
cudnnTensorDescriptor diffDesc,
cudnnConvolutionDescriptor convDesc,
cudnnTensorDescriptor gradDesc,
int requestedAlgoCount,
ref int returnedAlgoCount,
cudnnConvolutionBwdDataAlgoPerf[] perfResults
);
/// <summary>
/// This function attempts all cuDNN algorithms for
/// cudnnConvolutionBackwardData_v3 and outputs performance metrics to a user-
/// allocated array of cudnnConvolutionBwdDataAlgoPerf_t. These metrics are written
/// in sorted fashion where the first element has the lowest compute time.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="filterDesc">Handle to a previously initialized filter descriptor.</param>
/// <param name="diffDesc">Handle to the previously initialized input differential tensor descriptor.</param>
/// <param name="convDesc">Previously initialized convolution descriptor.</param>
/// <param name="gradDesc">Handle to the previously initialized output tensor descriptor.</param>
/// <param name="requestedAlgoCount">The maximum number of elements to be stored in perfResults.</param>
/// <returns>An array to store performance metrics sorted ascending by compute time.</returns>
public cudnnConvolutionBwdDataAlgoPerf[] FindConvolutionBackwardDataAlgorithm(FilterDescriptor filterDesc,
TensorDescriptor diffDesc,
ConvolutionDescriptor convDesc,
TensorDescriptor gradDesc,
int requestedAlgoCount
)
{
cudnnConvolutionBwdDataAlgoPerf[] temp = new cudnnConvolutionBwdDataAlgoPerf[requestedAlgoCount];
int returnedAlgoCount = 0;
res = CudaDNNNativeMethods.cudnnFindConvolutionBackwardDataAlgorithm(_handle, filterDesc.Desc, diffDesc.Desc, convDesc.Desc, gradDesc.Desc, requestedAlgoCount, ref returnedAlgoCount, temp);
Debug.WriteLine(String.Format("{0:G}, {1}: {2}", DateTime.Now, "cudnnFindConvolutionBackwardDataAlgorithm", res));
if (res != cudnnStatus.Success) throw new CudaDNNException(res);
if (returnedAlgoCount <= 0) return null;
cudnnConvolutionBwdDataAlgoPerf[] perfResults = new cudnnConvolutionBwdDataAlgoPerf[returnedAlgoCount];
Array.Copy(temp, perfResults, returnedAlgoCount);
return perfResults;
}