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+# Copyright (c) OpenMMLab. All rights reserved.
+import argparse
+import time
+
+import torch
+from mmcv import Config
+from mmcv.parallel import MMDataParallel
+from mmcv.runner import load_checkpoint, wrap_fp16_model
+
+from mmseg.datasets import build_dataloader, build_dataset
+from mmseg.models import build_segmentor
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='MMSeg benchmark a model')
+    parser.add_argument('config', help='test config file path')
+    parser.add_argument('checkpoint', help='checkpoint file')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--log-interval', type=int, default=50, help='interval of logging')
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    return args
+
+
+def main():
+    args = parse_args()
+
+    cfg = Config.fromfile(args.config)
+    # set cudnn_benchmark
+    torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = False
+    cfg.model.pretrained = None
+    cfg.data.test.test_mode = True
+
+    # build the dataloader
+    # TODO: support multiple images per gpu (only minor changes are needed)
+    dataset = build_dataset(cfg.data.test)
+    data_loader = build_dataloader(
+        dataset,
+        samples_per_gpu=1,
+        workers_per_gpu=cfg.data.workers_per_gpu,
+        dist=False,
+        shuffle=False)
+
+    # build the model and load checkpoint
+    cfg.model.train_cfg = None
+    model = build_segmentor(cfg.model, test_cfg=cfg.get('test_cfg'))
+    fp16_cfg = cfg.get('fp16', None)
+    if fp16_cfg is not None:
+        wrap_fp16_model(model)
+    load_checkpoint(model, args.checkpoint, map_location='cpu')
+
+    model = MMDataParallel(model, device_ids=[0])
+
+    model.eval()
+
+    # the first several iterations may be very slow so skip them
+    num_warmup = 5
+    pure_inf_time = 0
+    total_iters = 200
+
+    # benchmark with 200 image and take the average
+    for i, data in enumerate(data_loader):
+
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        start_time = time.perf_counter()
+
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            model(return_loss=False, rescale=True, **data)
+
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        elapsed = time.perf_counter() - start_time
+
+        if i >= num_warmup:
+            pure_inf_time += elapsed
+            if (i + 1) % args.log_interval == 0:
+                fps = (i + 1 - num_warmup) / pure_inf_time
+                print(f'Done image [{i + 1:<3}/ {total_iters}], '
+                      f'fps: {fps:.2f} img / s')
+
+        if (i + 1) == total_iters:
+            fps = (i + 1 - num_warmup) / pure_inf_time
+            print(f'Overall fps: {fps:.2f} img / s')
+            break
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()