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composable_kernel/example/ck_tile
juuso-oskari 1f69421434 CK-UA: dispatch K/V async load on cache_ptr_int32_overflow_possible
The shared-SRD buffer_load_dword_lds path that K_mem_load / V_mem_load use
wraps the per-lane voffset (int32 bytes) once
  num_blocks * page_size * row_stride * sizeof(T) > INT32_MAX,
silently returning wrong data on large paged-KV pools (e.g. >4 GB caches).

Add a second path, async_load_tile_raw_long, that issues the same load via
__builtin_amdgcn_global_load_lds with per-lane 64-bit base pointers, lifting
both 4 GB limits (SRD size + voffset). Per-issue LDS pointers are computed
explicitly because the intrinsic sets m0 itself, so the old m0_set / m0_inc
bookkeeping doesn't apply. The path also clamps lane_elem_off to the live
buffer range to mimic the original SRD's hardware OOB behaviour.

Dispatch is a wave-uniform runtime branch on a new
cache_ptr_int32_overflow_possible flag plumbed from
unified_attention_args through MakeKargs into the pipeline operator().
Small caches keep the original buffer_load throughput; only the (rare)
>4 GB cache pays the global_load_lds cost.

k_page_offsets / v_page_offsets are widened to long_index_t. The original
buffer_load path implicitly narrows back to int32 when forwarding through
async_get_vectorized_elements_raw, which is intentional and safe whenever
the overflow flag is false.

For diagnostics, also derive a constexpr KWaveSpanInN =
(LaneGroups - 1) * NumWarps + 1 inside the pipeline; when this exceeds
page_size a single buffer_load spans multiple random pages, so the
per-issue SRD-rebase optimisation (not implemented yet) would not apply
even on a sub-4 GB cache. Informational only today.

Test: ua-test-scripts correctness sweep (245/245 pass), plus
  test_single_shape.py -b 32 -sq 8192 -sk 120000 -hq 64 -hk 8 -d 64 \
      --num-blocks 1200000 --block-size 16 --test
which previously returned wrong data due to the int32 wrap and now passes
with max abs diff 1.22e-04 vs Triton.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-05-15 09:00:43 +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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