Details:
- Added a frequently asked question to docs/FAQ.md regarding the
difference between upstream (vanilla) BLIS and AMD BLIS.
- Updated the name of ICES in the README.md to reflect the Oden
rebranding.
Details:
- Added single-threaded and multithreaded performance results to
docs/Performance.md. These results were gathered on an Epyc 7742
"Rome" server with AMD's Zen2 microarchitecture. Special thanks
to Jeff Diamond for facilitating access to the system via the
Oracle Cloud.
- Renamed files containing the previous Zen performance results for
consistency with the new results.
Details:
- Renamed test/3/matlab to test/3/octave.
- Within test/3, updated and tuned plot_l3_perf.m and plot_panel_4x5.m
files for use with octave (which is free and doesn't crash on me
mid-way through my use of subplot).
- Updated runthese.m scratchpad for zen2 invocations.
- Added Nikolay S.'s subplot_tight() function, along with its license.
Details:
- Created a set of single-precision real millikernels and microkernels
comparable to the dgemmsup kernels that already exist within BLIS.
- Added prototypes for all kernels within bli_kernels_haswell.h.
- Registered entry-point millikernels in bli_cntx_init_haswell.c and
bli_cntx_init_zen.c.
- Added sgemmsup support to the Makefile, runme.sh script, and source
file in test/sup. This included edits that allow for separate "small"
dimensions for single- and double-precision as well as for single-
vs. multithreaded execution.
Details:
- Changed double* pointers in sgemm function signature to float*. At
this point I've lost track of whether this was my fault or another
dormant bug like the one described in ece9f6a, but at this point I
no longer care. It's one of those days (aka I didn't ask for this).
Details:
- Fixed dormant type mismatches in the use of the prototype-generating
macros in bli_kernels_knl.h. Specifically, some float prototypes
were incorrectly using double as their ctype. This didn't actually
matter until the type changes in 645d771, as previously those types
were not used since packm was prototyped with void* pointers.
Details:
- In trying to clean up kappa_cast variables in the reference packm
kernels, which I initally believed to be redundant given the other
void* -> ctype* changes in 645d771, I accidentally ended up violating
restrict semantics for 1e/1r packing and possibly other packm kernels.
(Normally, my pre-commit testsuite run would have caught this, but I
was unknowingly using an edited input.operations file in which I'd
disabled most tests as part of unrelated work.) This commit reverts
the kappa_cast changes in 645d771.
Details:
- Changed all void* function arguments in reference packm kernels to
those of the native type (ctype*). These pointers no longer need to
be void* and are better represented by their native types anyway.
(See below for details.) Updated knl packm kernels accordingly.
- In the definition of the PACKM_KER_PROT prototype macro template in
frame/1m/bli_l1m_ker_prot.h, changed the pointer types for kappa, a,
and p from void* to ctype*. They were originally void* because these
function signatures had to share the same type so they could all be
stored in a single array of that shared type, from which they were
queried and called by packm_cxk(). This is no longer how the function
pointers are stored, and so it no longer makes sense to force the
caller of packm kernels to use void*, only so that the implementor
of the packm kernels can typecast back to the native datatype within
the kernel definition. This change has no effect internally within
BLIS because currently all packm kernels are called after querying
the function addresses from the context and then typecasting to the
appropriate function pointer type, which is based upon type-specific
function pointers like float* and double*.
- Removed a comment in frame/1m/bli_l1m_ft_ker.h that was outdated and
misleading due to changes to the handling of packm kernels since
moving them into the context.
It seems that -O3 might be causing intermittent problems with the f2c'ed packed and banded code. -O3 is retained for kernel code. Fixes#341 and fixes#342.
Details:
- Steer the reader towards the example code section of each
documentation doc (object and typed).
- Trivial update to examples/oapi/README, examples/tapi/README.
Details:
- Added documentation for commonly-used object mutator functions in
BLISObjectAPI.md. Previously, only accessor functions were documented.
Thanks to Jeff Diamond for pointing out this omission.
- Explicitly set the 'diag' property of objects in oapi example modules
(08level2.c and 09level3.c).
ifort apparently does not return complex numbers in registers as in C/C++ (or gfortran), but instead creates a "hidden" first parameter for the return value. The option --complex-return=gnu|intel has been added, as well as a guess based on a provided FC if not specified (otherwise default to gnu). This option affects the signatures of cdotc, cdotu, zdotc, and zdotu, and a single library cannot be used with both GNU and Intel Fortran compilers. Fixes#433.
Details:
- Added language to remind the reader to disable sup if the intended
behavior is for the sandbox implementation to handle all problem
sizes, even the smaller ones that would normally be handled by the
sup code path.
Details:
- Textually replaced nearly all non-comment instances of bool_t with the
C99 bool type. A few remaining instances, such as those in the files
bli_herk_x_ker_var2.c, bli_trmm_xx_ker_var2.c, and
bli_trsm_xx_ker_var2.c, were promoted to dim_t since they were being
used not for boolean purposes but to index into an array.
- This commit constitutes the third phase of a transition toward using
C99's bool instead of bool_t, which was raised in issue #420. The first
phase, which cleaned up various typecasts in preparation for using
bool as the basis for bool_t (instead of gint_t), was implemented by
commit a69a4d7. The second phase, which redefined the bool_t typedef
in terms of bool (from gint_t), was implemented by commit 2c554c2.
Details:
- Changed the typedef that defines bool_t from:
typedef gint_t bool_t;
where gint_t is a signed integer that forms the basis of most other
integers in BLIS, to:
typedef bool bool_t;
- Changed BLIS's TRUE and FALSE macro definitions from being in terms of
integer literals:
#define TRUE 1
#define FALSE 0
to being in terms of C99 boolean constants:
#define TRUE true
#define FALSE false
which are provided by stdbool.h.
- This commit constitutes the second phase of a transition toward using
C99's bool instead of bool_t, which will address issue #420. The first
phase, which cleaned up various typecasts in preparation for using
bool as the basis for bool_t (instead of gint_t), was implemented by
commit a69a4d7.
Details:
- Updated Makefiles in test, test/3, and test/sup so that running any of
the usual targets without having first built BLIS results in a helpful
error message. For example, if BLIS is not yet configured, make will
output:
Makefile:327: *** Cannot proceed: config.mk not detected! Run
configure first. Stop.
Similarly, if BLIS is configured but not yet built, make will output:
Makefile:340: *** Cannot proceed: BLIS library not yet built! Run
make first. Stop.
In previous commits, these actions would result in a rather cryptic
make error such as:
make: *** No rule to make target 'test_sgemm_2400_asm_blis_st.x',
needed by 'blis-nat-st'. Stop.
Details:
- Fixed various typecasts in
frame/base/bli_cntx.h
frame/base/bli_mbool.h
frame/base/bli_rntm.h
frame/include/bli_misc_macro_defs.h
frame/include/bli_obj_macro_defs.h
frame/include/bli_param_macro_defs.h
that were missing or being done improperly/incompletely. For example,
many return values were being typecast as
(bool_t)x && y
rather than
(bool_t)(x && y)
Thankfully, none of these deficiencies had manifested as actual bugs
at the time of this commit.
- Changed the return type of bli_env_get_var() from dim_t to gint_t.
This reflects the fact that bli_env_get_var() needs to be able to
return a signed integer, and even though dim_t is currently defined
as a signed integer, it does not intuitively appear to necessarily be
signed by inspection (i.e., an integer named "dim_t" for matrix
"dimension"). Also, updated use of bli_env_get_var() within
bli_pack.c to reflect the changed return type.
- Redefined type of thrcomm_t.barrier_sense field from bool_t to gint_t
and added comments to the bli_thrcomm_*.h files that will explain a
planned replacement of bool_t with C99's bool type.
- Note: These changes are being made to facilitate the substitution of
'bool' for 'bool_t', which will eliminate the namespace conflict with
arm_sve.h as reported in issue #420. This commit implements the first
phase of that transition. Thanks to RuQing Xu for reporting this
issue.
- CREDITS file update.
Details:
- The 'ref99' sandbox was broken by multiple refactorings and internal
API changes over the last two years. Rather than try to fix it, I've
replaced it with a much simpler version based on var2 of gemmsup.
Why not fix the previous implementation? It occurred to me that the
old implementation was trying to be a lightly simplified duplication
of what exists in the framework. Duplication aside, this sandbox
would have worked fine if it had been completely independent of the
framework code. The problem was that it was only partially
independent, with many function calls calling a function in BLIS
rather than a duplicated/simplified version within the sandbox. (And
the reason I didn't make it fully independent to begin with was that
it seemed unnecessarily duplicative at the time.) Maintaining two
versions of the same implementation is problematic for obvious
reasons, especially when it wasn't even done properly to begin with.
This explains the reimplementation in this commit. The only catch is
that the newer implementation is single-threaded only and does not
perform any packing on either input matrix (A or B). Basically, it's
only meant to be a simple placeholder that shows how you could plug
in your own implementation. Thanks to Francisco Igual for reporting
this brokenness.
- Updated the three reference gemmsup kernels (defined in
ref_kernels/3/bli_gemmsup_ref.c) so that they properly handle
conjugation of conja and/or conjb. The general storage kernel, which
is currently identical to the column-storage kernel, is used in the
new ref99 sandbox to provide basic support for all datatypes
(including scomplex and dcomplex).
- Minor updates to docs/Sandboxes.md, including adding the threading
and packing limitations to the Caveats section.
- Fixed a comment typo in bli_l3_sup_var1n2m.c (upon which the new
sandbox implementation is based).
Details:
- Added support to bli_gemmsup_rv_haswell_asm_d6x8n.c for handling
various n = 6 edge cases with a single sup kernel call. Previously,
only n = {4,2,1} were handled explicitly as single kernel calls;
that is, cases where n = 6 were previously being executed via two
kernel calls (n = 4 and n = 2).
- Added commented debug line to testsuite's test_libblis.c.
Details:
- Updated all static function definitions to use the cpp macro
BLIS_INLINE instead of the static keyword. This allows blis.h to
use a different keyword (inline) to define these functions when
compiling with C++, which might otherwise trigger "defined but
not used" warning messages. Thanks to Giorgos Margaritis for
reporting this issue and Devin Matthews for suggesting the fix.
- Updated the following files, which are used by configure's
hardware auto-detection facility, to unconditionally #define
BLIS_INLINE to the static keyword (since we know BLIS will be
compiled with C, not C++):
build/detect/config/config_detect.c
frame/base/bli_arch.c
frame/base/bli_cpuid.c
- CREDITS file update.
Details:
- Added the -fomit-frame-pointer compiler option to the CKOPTFLAGS
variable in the following make_defs.mk files:
config/haswell/make_defs.mk
config/skx/make_defs.mk
as well as comments that mention why the compiler option is needed.
This option is needed to prevent the compiler from using the rbp
frame register (in the very early portion of kernel code, typically
where k_iter and k_left are defined and computed), which, as of
1c719c9, is used explicitly by the gemmsup millikernels. Thanks to
Devin Matthews for identifying this missing option and to Jeff
Diamond for reporting the original bug in #417.
- The file
config/zen/amd_config.mk
which feeds into the make_defs.mk for both zen and zen2 subconfigs,
was also touched, but only to add a commented-out compiler option
(and the aforementioned explanatory comment) since that file already
uses -fomit-frame-pointer in COPTFLAGS, which forms the basis of
CKOPTFLAGS.
Details:
- Fixed an inadvertently disabled edge case optimization in the two
gemmsup variants in bli_l3_sup_var1n2m.c. Background: These edge case
optimizations allow the last millikernel operation in the jr loop to
be executed with inflated an register blocksize if it is the last
(or only) iteration. For example, if mr=6 and nr=8 and the gemmsup
problem is m=8, n=100, k=100. (In this case, the panel-block variant
(var1n) is executed, which places the jr loop in the m dimension.)
In principle, this problem could be executed as two millikernels: one
with dimensions 6x100x100, and one as 2x100x100. However, with the
support for inflated blocksizes in the kernel, the entire 8x100x100
problem can be passed to the millikernel function, which will then
execute it more favorably as two 4x100x100 millikernel sub-calls.
Now, this optimization is disabled under certain circumstances, such
as when multithreading. Previously, the is_mt predicate was being set
incorrectly such that it was non-zero even when running
single-threaded.
- Upon fixing the is_mt issue above, another bit of code needed to be
moved so that the result of the optimization could have an impact on
the assignment of loop bounds ranges to threads.
Details:
- Updated the test/sup source file (test_gemm.c) and Makefile to support
building matrices with small or large leading dimensions, and updated
runme.sh to support executing both kinds of test drivers.
- Updated runme.sh to allow for executing sup drivers with unpacked (the
default) or packed matrices (via setting BLIS_PACK_A, BLIS_PACK_B
environment variables), and for capturing output to files that encode
both the leading dimension (small or large) and packing status into
the filenames.
- Consolidated octave scripts in test/sup/octave_st, test/sup/octave_mt
into test/sup/octave and updated the octave code in that consolidated
directory to read the new output filename format (encoding ldim and
packing). Also added comments and streamlined code, particularly in
plot_panel_trxsh.m. Tested the octave scripts with octave 5.2.0.
- Moved old octave_st, octave_mt directories to test/sup/old.
Details:
- Previously, the entry for shiftd in the Operation index section of
BLISTypedAPI.md was incorrectly linking to the shiftd operation entry
in BLISObjectAPI.md. This has been fixed. Thanks to Jeff Diamond for
helping find this incorrect link.
Details:
- Fixed an innocuous bug that manifested when running the testsuite on
extremely small matrices with randomization via the "powers of 2 in
narrow precision range" option enabled. When the randomization
function emits a perfect 0.0 to fill a 1x1 matrix, the testsuite will
then compute 0.0/0.0 during the normalization process, which leads to
NaN residuals. The solution entails smarter implementaions of randv,
randnv, randm, and randnm, each of which will compute the 1-norm of
the vector or matrix in question. If the object has a 1-norm of 0.0,
the object is re-randomized until the 1-norm is not 0.0. Thanks to
Kiran Varaganti for reporting this issue (#413).
- Updated the implementation of randm_unb_var1() so that it loops over
a call to the randv_unb_var1() implementation directly rather than
calling it indirectly via randv(). This was done to avoid the overhead
of multiple calls to norm1v() when randomizing the rows/columns of a
matrix.
- Updated comments.
