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Enrico Degregori 2733e75900 [rocm-libraries] ROCm/rocm-libraries#6565 (commit d41715e)
[CK Tile] Async support pipeline V3

## Motivation

Optimize pipeline V3 for gfx950 by enabling buffer load to lds (async
pipeline)

## Technical Details

- Add `Async` bool to `Problem` struct to enable async pipeline in
existing one
- Add `static_move_ys` to load transpose. This generates offset in
assembly instructions saving registers
- Add `is_valid` to `async_get_vectorized_elements`. Before hard coded
to true. It allows to support padding
- Remove unnecessary restrictions to `is_a_load_tr` and `is_b_load_tr`
(wider use of lds load transpose on gfx950)
- Integrate async support in existing V3 pipeline (avoid pipelines
duplication)
- Create policy to support both async and default cases. This could be
used by any async pipeline (next steps)
- Define `wg_attr_num_access` separately for A and B. This allows to
optimize ds_read instruction width for cases when one matrix is
transposed and the other is not. Before in such cases, `ds_read_b64` was
used instead of `ds_read_b128`
- Add test for V3 async. Currently only supporting cases with A and B
having the same type

## Test Plan

New test `test_ck_tile_gemm_pipeline_compv3_async`

## Submission Checklist

- [x] Look over the contributing guidelines at
https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-requests.
2026-06-19 06:57:14 +00:00
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CK Tile Example Suite

This directory contains a comprehensive suite of examples demonstrating the CK Tile programming model for high-performance GPU kernels. Each example illustrates a key deep learning or HPC operation, implemented using tile-based parallelism, modular pipelines, and data movement policy.


What is CK Tile?

CK Tile is a composable GPU programming API that expresses kernels as a composition of "tiles"—rectangular blocks of computation and data movement. The pipeline & policy orchestrates data movement (global <-> LDS <-> registers), computation, and synchronization, enabling high efficiency and flexibility.


Example Index

Example Operation Description
01_fmha Fused Multi-Head Attention Tile-based FMHA with masking, quantization, and epilogue fusion
02_layernorm2d LayerNorm2D Blockwise layer normalization with fusion and quantization
03_gemm GEMM Matrix multiplication with tilewise parallelism
04_img2col im2col Image-to-column transformation for GEMM-based convolution
05_reduce Reduction Tilewise sum, max, mean reductions
06_permute Permute Generic tensor permutation (up to rank-8)
09_topk_softmax TopK-Softmax Rowwise softmax and top-k selection for MoE gating
10_rmsnorm2d RMSNorm2D Root mean square normalization for LLMs
11_add_rmsnorm2d_rdquant Add + RMSNorm2D + RDQuant Fused add, RMSNorm, and rowwise dynamic quantization
12_smoothquant SmoothQuant Per-channel scaling and quantization for int8 inference
13_moe_sorting MoE Sorting Token-to-expert rearrangement for MoE dispatch
14_moe_smoothquant MoE-SmoothQuant Expert-dependent quantization fused with top-k selection
15_fused_moe Fused MoE End-to-end fused MoE block: sorting, group-GEMM, activation, weighting
16_batched_gemm Batched GEMM Parallel computation of multiple GEMMs
17_grouped_gemm Grouped GEMM Multiple independent GEMMs with different shapes
18_flatmm FLATMM Flattened matrix multiplication for packed layouts
19_gemm_multi_d Multi-D GEMM GEMM with multiple side inputs (bias, residual, etc.)
35_batched_transpose Batched Transpose NCHW <-> NHWC and other layout conversions
36_copy Copy Minimal example for tile-based memory movement
37_transpose Block Transpose High-performance tiled transpose for large tensors

Technical Highlights


How to Build & Run

mkdir build && cd build
sh ../script/cmake-ck-dev.sh ../ <arch>
make -j

Each example produces its own executable in build/bin/.


Learning and Extending


References


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