Intel® Math Kernel Library 2019 Developer Guide

Using Intel MKL Verbose Mode

When building applications that call Intel MKL functions, it may be useful to determine:

You can get an application to print this information to a standard output device by enabling Intel MKL Verbose. Functions that can print this information are referred to as verbose-enabled functions.

When Verbose mode is active in an Intel MKL domain, every call of a verbose-enabled function finishes with printing a human-readable line describing the call. However, if your application gets terminated for some reason during the function call, no information for that function will be printed. The first call to a verbose-enabled function also prints a version information line.

To enable the Intel MKL Verbose mode for an application, do one of the following:

To disable the Intel MKL Verbose mode, call the mkl_verbose(0) function.Both enabling and disabling of the Verbose mode using the function call takes precedence over the environment setting. For a full description of the mkl_verbose function, see either the Intel MKL Developer Reference for C or theIntel MKL Developer Reference for Fortran.Both references are available in the Intel® Software Documentation Library.

You can enable Intel MKL Verbose mode in these domains:

Intel MKL Verbose mode is not a thread-local but a global state. In other words, if an application changes the mode from multiple threads, the result is undefined.

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The performance of an application may degrade with the Verbose mode enabled, especially when the number of calls to verbose-enabled functions is large, because every call to a verbose-enabled function requires an output operation.

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