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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Devin Matthews
627d0c5bfd Combine the alternative barrier implementation for macOS with the pthread wrapper for Windows. Also implement pthread_{create,join} for Windows. 2018-10-02 14:40:55 -05:00
Field G. Van Zee
4fa4cb0734 Trivial comment header updates.
Details:
- Removed four trailing spaces after "BLIS" that occurs in most files'
  commented-out license headers.
- Added UT copyright lines to some files. (These files previously had
  only AMD copyright lines but were contributed to by both UT and AMD.)
- In some files' copyright lines, expanded 'The University of Texas' to
  'The University of Texas at Austin'.
- Fixed various typos/misspellings in some license headers.
2018-08-29 18:06:41 -05:00
Field G. Van Zee
13175c5fb7 Updated openmp/pthread barriers with GNU atomics.
Details:
- Updated the non-tree openmp and pthreads barriers defined in
  bli_thrcomm_openmp.c and bli_thrcomm_pthreads.c to instead call a common
  implementation in bli_thrcomm.c, bli_thrcomm_barrier_atomic(). This new
  implementation goes through the same motions as the previous codes, but
  protects its loads and increments with GNU atomic built-ins. These atomic
  statements take memory ordering parameters that allow us to specify just
  enough constraints for the barrier to work as intended on weakly-ordered
  hardware. The prior implementation was only guaranteed to work on systems
  with strongly- ordered memory. (Thanks to Devin Matthews for suggesting
  this change and his crash-course in atomics and memory ordering.)
- Removed 'volatile' from structs' barrier field declarations in
  bli_thrcomm_*.h.
- Updated bli_thrcomm_pthread.? files to use renamed struct barrier fields
  consistent with that of the _openmp.? files.
- Updated other bli_thrcomm_* files to rename "communicator" variables to
  simply "comm".
2017-07-18 17:56:00 -05:00
Field G. Van Zee
096895c5d5 Reorganized code, APIs related to multithreading.
Details:
- Reorganized code and renamed files defining APIs related to multithreading.
  All code that is not specific to a particular operation is now located in a
  new directory: frame/thread. Code is now organized, roughly, by the
  namespace to which it belongs (see below).
- Consolidated all operation-specific *_thrinfo_t object types into a single
  thrinfo_t object type. Operation-specific level-3 *_thrinfo_t APIs were
  also consolidated, leaving bli_l3_thrinfo_*() and bli_packm_thrinfo_*()
  functions (aside from a few general purpose bli_thrinfo_*() functions).
- Renamed thread_comm_t object type to thrcomm_t.
- Renamed many of the routines and functions (and macros) for multithreading.
  We now have the following API namespaces:
  - bli_thrinfo_*(): functions related to thrinfo_t objects
  - bli_thrcomm_*(): functions related to thrcomm_t objects.
  - bli_thread_*(): general-purpose functions, such as initialization,
    finalization, and computing ranges. (For now, some macros, such as
    bli_thread_[io]broadcast() and bli_thread_[io]barrier() use the
    bli_thread_ namespace prefix, even though bli_thrinfo_ may be more
    appropriate.)
- Renamed thread-related macros so that they use a bli_ prefix.
- Renamed control tree-related macros so that they use a bli_ prefix (to be
  consistent with the thread-related macros that were also renamed).
- Removed #undef BLIS_SIMD_ALIGN_SIZE from dunnington's bli_kernel.h. This
  #undef was a temporary fix to some macro defaults which were being applied
  in the wrong order, which was recently fixed.
2016-06-06 13:32:04 -05:00