# simpleAttributes - simpleAttributes

## Description

This CUDA Runtime API sample is a very basic example that implements how to use the stream attributes that affect L2 locality. Performance improvement due to use of L2 access policy window can only be noticed on Compute capability 8.0 or higher.

## Key Concepts

Attributes usage on stream

## Supported SM Architectures

[SM 5.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 5.2 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 5.3 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 6.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 6.1 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 7.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 7.2 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 7.5 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.6 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.7 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 8.9 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)  [SM 9.0 ](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)

## Supported OSes

Linux, Windows

## Supported CPU Architecture

x86_64, armv7l

## CUDA APIs involved

### [CUDA Runtime API](http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-runtime-api/index.html)
cudaFree, cudaMallocHost, cudaFreeHost, cudaStreamSynchronize, cudaStreamSetAttribute, cudaDeviceSetLimit, cudaMalloc, cudaMemcpyAsync, cudaStreamCreate, cudaGetDeviceProperties

## Prerequisites

Download and install the [CUDA Toolkit](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads) for your corresponding platform.

## References (for more details)
