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Kiefer van Teutem 6cd016dde4 [CK Tile] Add Tile Distribution Encoding Calculator (#5515)
## Motivation

We want to be able to calculate TileDistributionEncodings describing
register mappings for any MmaOp. This is necessary for further
integration with CK Tile.

This MR adds a new struct TileDistrEncCalc, which takes an amdgcn_mma
type (MmaOp) and provides ABC warp distribution encodings for mapping
matrix fragment coordinates to register coordinates
(lane, vector item) and vice versa. It is able to take CTranpose,
Swizzle, and NumAccessA / NumAccessB template parameters for tweaking
the tile distributions. Swizzle modification will be implemented later.

The current implementation can deal with all intrinsic types and
block-hiding.

This MR also adds some additional static asserts and derived params
within amdgcn_mma_base, to enforce consistency and help calculate Tile
Distributions for block-hiding intrinsics.

An Example was added that uses the Tile Distr Enc Calc to calc and print
register layouts for Tile Distributions for some of our amdgcn_mma
structs. It also makes sure that the CTranspose modifier works as
intended.

Some additional gfx9 intrinsics were added to test block-hiding layouts
for the different types of C-block-hiding layouts.

The sparse intrinsic wrappers were updated according to Chris's recent
changes in another branch
(https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-libraries/pull/5508), which moved the
compression step outside of the intrinsic itself. This is necessary to
make sure that the Calculator can deal with this new interpretation of
the sparse intrinsics. I directly copied the new amdgcn structs from
Chris's branch and changed nothing else to avoid more complex merges in
the future. Note that this means I did not update a bunch of related
sparse code since that would be a lot, and therefore I disabled
test_amdgcn_sparse_mma for now.

The amdgcn_mma_layout test was refactored a bit:
- The old register mapping utility was removed and its use was replaced
by the new TileDistrEncCalc
- More tests were added to test layouts for different types of
block-hiding and sparse intrinsics
- The Selector method was removed and the tests were split up over
target architectures, with each target arch having a direct list of
amdgcn structs to be tested. This ensures that we force specific tests
on specific architectures and makes sure that the selector doesn't
quietly do some workarounds like creating compound intrinsics.

## Test Results

Layout tests based on calculated tile distribution encodings pass on all
architectures. Calculator works for all currently added amdgcn structs,
which includes different types of block-hiding and sparse intrinsics.
Printed layouts from new example verified by eye. CTranspose modifier
tested for large set of intrinsics.
2026-04-13 08:00:31 +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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