CLRELEASECOMMANDQUEU(3clc)

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💅 CLRELEASECOMMANDQUEU (3clc) 💅

okay so bestie, this is from the OpenCL Manual and it's genuinely one of the most "thank u, next" little functions in the whole API ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

clReleaseCommandQueue — decrements the command_queue reference count. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a one-task icon 💖

cl_int clReleaseCommandQueue(cl_command_queue command_queue);

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

  • command_queue — the command-queue you're releasing. like, the one you're letting go of. be specific, she needs to know which queue bestie 🦋

✨ NOTES ✨

okay here's the tea: once the command_queue reference count hits zero AND every single command you queued to command_queue has finished (we're talking kernel executions, memory object updates, all of it), the command-queue is deleted. gone. bye. 💀

and here's the cute part: clReleaseCommandQueue does an implicit flush to issue any previously queued OpenCL commands in command_queue. she's not just leaving, she's making sure everything gets sent before the door closes. main character behaviour fr fr 👑

🌈 ERRORS 🌈

Returns CL_SUCCESS if the function is executed successfully. Otherwise, it returns one of the following:

  • CL_SUCCESS — she did it! 🎉 everything went exactly right.
  • CL_INVALID_COMMAND_QUEUE — command_queue is not a valid command queue. 🚩 like, who is she? we don't know her.
  • CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES — there was a failure to allocate resources required by the OpenCL implementation on the device. 😭 the device said no.
  • CL_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY — there was a failure to allocate resources required by the OpenCL implementation on the host. 🙈 the host said no too.

⭐ SPECIFICATION ⭐

OpenCL Specification[1] — she's official, she's documented, she's got receipts 💅

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

the whole command queue friend group honestly. retain, release, create, get info — they're a package deal 🎀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The Khronos Group

Copyright © 2007-2011 The Khronos Group Inc.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and/or associated documentation files (the "Materials"), to deal in the Materials without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Materials, and to permit persons to whom the Materials are furnished to do so, subject to the condition that this copyright notice and permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Materials.

ngl bestie, we do not rewrite the license text. that's the one thing you leave exactly as written. periodt. ✋💜

🧚 NOTES 🧚

  1. OpenCL Specification — page 63, section 5.1 - Command Queues

and that's the whole page! this manual page came from The Khronos Group, dated 01/14/2021, and it lives in section 3clc of the OpenCL manual. 💖 slay, go release that queue responsibly, ily 🦋✨

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