## About qr_ks_vs_whole_k_prefetch pipeline
This PR updates and enhances the qr_ks_vs_whole_k_prefetch pipeline to
improve performance on both MI350 GPUs through better MFMA instruction
usage, transposed V-loading support, and N0-loop implementation. The
pipeline targets scenarios where the number of workgroups is low,
enabling better CU occupancy by using smaller MTile sizes (kM0=64 vs
128) while prefetching entire K tiles.
## Changes:
- Adds transposed V-loading support (qr_ks_vs_whole_k_prefetch_trload)
to avoid using shuffle instructions on MI350
- Implements N0-loop based Gemm0 to reduce tile window movement overhead
and eliminate `clear_tile` calls
- Adds full support for hdim96/hdim160 without padding requirements
- Updates MFMA instruction selection to ensure optimal choices for MI350
## Performance results
1. For attention shapes which leads to kM0=64,
`qr_ks_vs_async_whole_k_prefetch_trload` shows much better performance
than `qr_ks_vs_async_trload` on the same case (execution time `41.02ms`
by whole_k_prefetch_trload & `58.50ms` by async_load), and
`qr_ks_vs_async_whole_k_prefetch_trload` also shows obviously better
performance than the recently tuned `qr_ks_vs_async` on the same case
(execution time `41.02ms` by whole_k_prefetch_trload 7 `47.60ms` by
qr_ks_vs_async)
2. Also on MI300, for attention shapes which leads to kM0=64,
`qr_ks_vs_async_whole_k_prefetch` shows much better performance than the
`qr_ks_vs_async` (which is supposed to be very high-efficient) on the
same case (execution time `64.50ms` by whole_k_prefetch & `80.20ms` by
qr_ks_vs_async)
3. For attention shapes which leads to kM0=128,
`qr_ks_vs_async_whole_k_prefetch_trload` show a little bit better
performance than `qr_ks_vs_async` on mi350 (execution time `104.50ms` by
whole_k_prefetch_trload & `106.50ms` by qr_ks_vs_async). And they shows
completely on-par performance on MI300
## Test/Verify
1. Use the ROCM xformers branch `test_whole_k_prefetch_n0loop` to
test/verify qr_ks_vs_whole_k_prefetch pipeline since this pipeline can
not be used by ck_tile fmha example so far
2. Use the following command-line for building/testing xformers
>```bash
> #> git clone -b test_whole_k_prefetch_n0loop
https://github.com/ROCm/xformers
> #> git submodule update --init --recursive
> #> pip install --no-build-isolation -e ./
> #> pytest tests/test_mem_eff_attention.py::test_forward
>```
4. Any scripts which can run on xformers can be used to evaluate
qr_ks_vs_whole_k_prefetch pipeline. Using the two environ variable to
switch from using different pipelines
> ```bash
> #> export FMHA_DISABLE_SPECIAL_TREATMENT=1 #> to disable using FAV3
and qr_ks_vs_async_trload pipeline
> #> export FMHA_ENABLE_ASYNC_PIPELINE=1 #> to disable using
qr_ks_vs_async pipeline for comparing
> ```
## Discussion
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Co-authored-by: Po Yen Chen <PoYen.Chen@amd.com>
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