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composable_kernel/example/ck_tile
Amir Ghamarian ae1d09f545 Add 2-warp decode kernel with kBlockM=64 for minimal tile waste
Introduce UnifiedAttentionPipelineDecodePolicy with NumWarpPerGroup=2,
enabling sequence<2,1,1> (2 warps, 1D layout along M). This gives
kBlockM=64, kBlockQ=8 for GQA-8, reducing Q tile padding waste from
15/16 (kBlockM=128) to 7/8 for decode workloads.

Key insight: instead of fighting with 2D warp layouts (which break the
permlane32_swap softmax reduction), use fewer warps with a smaller
NumWarpPerGroup. The 1D warp layout is preserved so no reduction changes
are needed.

Benchmark (64-seq decode, d64 GQA-8):
  kBlockM=128 (prev): 0.03406ms
  kBlockM=64  (this): 0.03247ms (~4.7% faster)
  Total vs baseline:  0.06177ms -> 0.03247ms (1.90x speedup)

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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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