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Hosang Yoon 4c0e73ab12 [rocm-libraries] ROCm/rocm-libraries#6156 (commit 367565a)
[CK_TILE] Optimize FMHA head-dim padded path on gfx11/gfx12
 (#6156)

## Motivation
On gfx11/gfx12, FMHA forward kernels that require head-dim padding show
a large performance drop compared to the exact-head-dim path. In
practice, padded cases such as `HDIM=72` and `HDIM=80` were falling too
far off the fast path.

This PR improves padded-head-dim FMHA performance on gfx11/gfx12 while
keeping the behavior for other GPUs unchanged.

## Technical Details

- Add/scope a dedicated padded-head-dim (`qr_hpad`) FMHA forward path
for gfx11/gfx12.
- For `receipt=0`, keep support conservative and only enable the padded
fast path for vector-safe cases (`head_dim % 8 == 0`), matching the
existing assumption used on other GPUs.
- Move `v_prefetch` later only for the head-dim-padded path on
gfx11/gfx12. This reduces live ranges and removes the register-spill
behavior seen in the earlier scheduling.
- Enable the buffer-load OOB check offset trick for the padded path on
gfx11/gfx12.

## Test Plan

./build/bin/tile_example_fmha_fwd -prec=bf16 -mode={0/1} -b=1 -h=16
-d={72/80} -s={seqlen} -s_k={seqlen} -lse=0 -iperm={0/1} -operm={0/1}

## Test Result

Observed padded-head-dim performance improvements for HDIM=72/80:

- gfx11: about ~3.5x
- gfx1151: about ~2.0x
- gfx12: about ~1.3x

## Submission Checklist

- [ ] Look over the contributing guidelines at
https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-requests.
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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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