Function time

tools/caffe.cpp:339–426

Time: benchmark the execution time of a model.

// Time: benchmark the execution time of a model.
int time() {
  CHECK_GT(FLAGS_model.size(), 0) << "Need a model definition to time.";
  caffe::Phase phase = get_phase_from_flags(caffe::TRAIN);
  vector<string> stages = get_stages_from_flags();

  // Set device id and mode
  vector<int> gpus;
  get_gpus(&gpus);
  if (gpus.size() != 0) {
    LOG(INFO) << "Use GPU with device ID " << gpus[0];
    Caffe::SetDevice(gpus[0]);
    Caffe::set_mode(Caffe::GPU);
  } else {
    LOG(INFO) << "Use CPU.";
    Caffe::set_mode(Caffe::CPU);
  }
  // Instantiate the caffe net.
  Net<float> caffe_net(FLAGS_model, phase, FLAGS_level, &stages);

  // Do a clean forward and backward pass, so that memory allocation are done
  // and future iterations will be more stable.
  LOG(INFO) << "Performing Forward";
  // Note that for the speed benchmark, we will assume that the network does
  // not take any input blobs.
  float initial_loss;
  caffe_net.Forward(&initial_loss);
  LOG(INFO) << "Initial loss: " << initial_loss;
  LOG(INFO) << "Performing Backward";
  caffe_net.Backward();

  const vector<shared_ptr<Layer<float> > >& layers = caffe_net.layers();
  const vector<vector<Blob<float>*> >& bottom_vecs = caffe_net.bottom_vecs();
  const vector<vector<Blob<float>*> >& top_vecs = caffe_net.top_vecs();
  const vector<vector<bool> >& bottom_need_backward =
      caffe_net.bottom_need_backward();
  LOG(INFO) << "*** Benchmark begins ***";
  LOG(INFO) << "Testing for " << FLAGS_iterations << " iterations.";
  Timer total_timer;
  total_timer.Start();
  Timer forward_timer;
  Timer backward_timer;
  Timer timer;
  std::vector<double> forward_time_per_layer(layers.size(), 0.0);
  std::vector<double> backward_time_per_layer(layers.size(), 0.0);
  double forward_time = 0.0;
  double backward_time = 0.0;
  for (int j = 0; j < FLAGS_iterations; ++j) {
    Timer iter_timer;
    iter_timer.Start();
    forward_timer.Start();
    for (int i = 0; i < layers.size(); ++i) {
      timer.Start();
      layers[i]->Forward(bottom_vecs[i], top_vecs[i]);
      forward_time_per_layer[i] += timer.MicroSeconds();
    }
    forward_time += forward_timer.MicroSeconds();
    backward_timer.Start();
    for (int i = layers.size() - 1; i >= 0; --i) {