AMDGPU Glossary¶
Here you can find some generic acronyms used in the amdgpu driver. Notice that we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at ‘DC Glossary’.
- active_cu_number
- The number of CUs that are active on the system. The number of active CUs may be less than SE * SH * CU depending on the board configuration.
- CP
- Command Processor
- CPLIB
- Content Protection Library
- CU
- Compute Unit
- DFS
- Digital Frequency Synthesizer
- ECP
- Enhanced Content Protection
- EOP
- End Of Pipe/Pipeline
- GC
- Graphics and Compute
- GMC
- Graphic Memory Controller
- IH
- Interrupt Handler
- HQD
- Hardware Queue Descriptor
- IB
- Indirect Buffer
- IP
- Intellectual Property blocks
- KCQ
- Kernel Compute Queue
- KGQ
- Kernel Graphics Queue
- KIQ
- Kernel Interface Queue
- MEC
- MicroEngine Compute
- MES
- MicroEngine Scheduler
- MMHUB
- Multi-Media HUB
- MQD
- Memory Queue Descriptor
- PPLib
- PowerPlay Library - PowerPlay is the power management component.
- PSP
- Platform Security Processor
- RLC
- RunList Controller
- SDMA
- System DMA
- SE
- Shader Engine
- SH
- SHader array
- SMU
- System Management Unit
- SS
- Spread Spectrum
- VCE
- Video Compression Engine
- VCN
- Video Codec Next