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juuso-oskari d9df801be2 CK-UA: bf16/fp16 paged ps128 fast path + single-page rebase for single-issue tiles
Extends the fp8 paged ps128 work to bf16/fp16 prefill_d128 and removes the
paged addressing overhead that made paged ~50% slower than contiguous.

- Constexpr ps128 instances for bf16/fp16 (d128 prefill, mask + nmask). The
  dispatch in unified_attention.cpp now routes page_blk_size==128 to a constexpr
  instance for every dtype, so the per-tile div/mod/mul-by-128 strength-reduces
  to shifts/masks instead of falling into the PageSize=0 runtime-divide catch-all
  (which left real 32-bit integer divides in the bf16/fp16 address chain).

- Decouple the single-page SRD rebase (kRebaseKSrd/kRebaseVSrd) from the
  scalar-promote gate. The rebase only needs the tile to fit in one page
  (kPageSize % kPageBlockSize == 0); it was wrongly gated behind NRepeat>=2, which
  excluded the trivial single-issue (NRepeat==1) tile -- bf16/fp16 d128 @ ps128 --
  forcing it onto the per-lane multi-page fallback. Now single-issue tiles fold
  the page base into the SRD and hoist the per-lane scatter offsets; the paged
  'addr' phase disappears from the ATT trace.

- bf16/fp16 prefill_d128 quarters the N tile to 32 (kBf16QuarterBlockN) to drain
  the 2-byte score/P live set under the 256-VGPR ceiling (fp8's 1-byte tile fits
  at the halved N=64).

- Route the multi-page K fallback (ps16/ps32) through the LDS-resident
  block-table cache (kKFallbackLds, on by default): LDS-resolving the per-lane
  block-table reads off the critical path recovers ~+10.5% at ps16/ps32.
  kKNContigLoad / kKMultiPageDedup added as default-off experimental levers.

bf16 paged causal canonical (b1 sq=sk=75600 hq=hk=5 d128 bs128): 9.97 ms,
1.19x over Triton (was 10.5 ms / 1.13x). fp8 paged unchanged (1.64x). Full
correctness matrix 263/263 PASS incl. all split-KV/causal/GQA regression fixtures.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-06-16 14:54:27 +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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