This change makes each operation have its own thread info type,
allowing more fine control of threading in operations that have different types of suboperations
Added a multithreading infrastructure that should be independent of multithreading implementation in the future.
Currently, gemm blocked variants 1f and 2f, and packm variant blocked variant 1 is parallelized.
Details:
- Consolidated the functionality previously supported by packm_blk_var2()
and packm_blk_var3() into a new variant, packm_blk_var1().
- Updates to packm_gen_cxk(), packm_herm_cxk.c(), and packm_tri_cxk()
to accommodate above changes.
- Removed packm_blk_var3() and retired packm_blk_var2() to
frame/1m/packm/old.
- Updated all level-3 _cntl_init() functions so that the new, more
versatile packm_blk_var1 is used for all level-3 matrix packing.
Details:
- Defined a new macro, INSERT_GENTFUNC_BASIC0, which takes only one
argument--the base name of the function--and employed this macro
in the reference micro-kernel files instead of the _BASIC macro,
which takes one auxiliary argument. That argument was not being
used and probably just acted to unnecessarily obfuscate.
Details:
- Modified the interfaces to the datatype-specific macro-kernels so that:
- pd_a and pd_b are passed in (which contain the panel dimensions of
packed panels of a and b).
- rs_a and cs_b are no longer passed in (they were guaranteed to be 1).
- Modified implementations of datatype-specific macro-kernels so pd_a,
pd_b, cs_a, and rs_b are used instead of cpp macros for MR, NR, PACKMR,
and PACKNR, respectively.
- Declare temporary c matrices (ct) as being maxmr-by-maxnr, which for now
is equivalent to being mr-by-nr. maxmr and maxnr are declared in a new
header file bli_kernel_post_macro_defs.h.
Details:
- Modified all control tree node definitions to include a new field of
type func_t*, which is similar to a blksz_t except that it contains
one function pointer (each typed simply as void*) for each datatype.
We use the func_t* to embed pointers to the micro-kernels to use for
the leaf-level nodes of each control tree. This change is a natural
extension of control trees and will allow more flexibility in the
future.
- Modified all macro-kernel wrappers to obtain the micro-kernel pointers
from the incomming (previously ignored) control tree node and then pass
the queried pointer into the datatype-specific macro-kernel code, which
then casts the pointer to the appropriate type (new typedefs residing
in bli_kernel_type_defs.h) and then uses the pointer to call the micro-
kernel. Thus, the micro-kernel function is no longer "hard-coded" (that
is, determined when the datatype-specific macro-kernel functions are
instantiated by the C preprocessor).
- Added macros to bli_kernel_macro_defs.h that build datatype-specific
base names if they do not exist already, and then uses those to build
datatype-specific micro-kernel function names. This will allow
developers extra flexibility if they wanted to, for example, name each
of their datatype-specific micro-kernels differently (e.g. double
real might be named bli_dgemm_opt_4x4() while double complex might be
named bli_zgemm_opt_2x2()).
- Inserted appropriate code into _cntl_init() functions that allocates
and initializes a func_t object for the corresponding micro-kernels.
The gemm ukernel func_t object is created once, in bli_gemm_cntl_init(),
and then reused via extern wherever possible.
Details:
- Changed the pack_t enumerations so that BLIS_PACKED_VECTOR no longer has
its own value, and instead simply aliases to BLIS_PACKED_UNSPEC. This
makes room in the three pack_t bits of the info field of obj_t so that
two values are now unused, and may be used for other future purposes.
- Updated sloppy terminology usage in comments in level-2 front-ends.
(Replaced "is contiguous" with more accurate "has unit stride".)
Details:
- Added bli_getopt.c and .h files to frame/base. These files implement
a custom version of getopt(), which may be used to parse command line
options passed into a program via argc/argv. I am implementing this
function myself, as opposed to using the version available via unistd.h,
for portability reasons, as the only requirements are string.h (which
is available via the standard C library).
- Modified test suite to allow the user to specify the file name (and/or
path) to the parameters and operations input files: -g may be used to
specify the general input file and -o to specify the operations input
file). If -g or -o or both are not given, default filenames are assumed
(as well as their existence in the current directory).
Details:
- Replaced conditional expressions in macro-kernels related to computing
the addresses a2 and b2 (a_next and b_next) with a preprocessor macro
invocation, bli_is_last_iter(), that tests the same condition.
- Updated gemm_ukr module to use auxinfo_t argument.
- Whitespace changes in test suite ukr modules.
Details:
- Removed a_next and b_next arguments to micro-kernels and replaced them
with a pointer to a new datatype, auxinfo_t, which is simply a struct
that holds a_next and b_next. The struct may hold other auxiliary
information that may be useful to a micro-kernel, such as micro-panel
stride. Micro-kernels may access struct fields via accessor macros
defined in bli_auxinfo_macro_defs.h.
- Updated all instances of micro-kernel definitions, micro-kernel calls,
as well as macro-kernels (for declaring and initializing the structs)
according to above change.
Details:
- Added set of basic scalar macros that take arguments' real and
imaginary components separately, named like the previous set except
with the "ris" (instead of "s") suffix.
- Redefined the previous set of scalar macros (those that take arguments
"whole") in terms of the new "ri" set.
- Renamed setris and getris macros to sets and gets.
- Renamed setimag0 macros to seti0s.
- Use bli_?1 macro instead of a local constant in bla_trmv.c, bla_trsv.c.
Details:
- Added infrastructure to support a new scalar representation, whereby
every object contains an internal scalar that defaults to 1.0. This
facilitates passing scalars around without having to house them in
separate objects. These "attached" scalars are stored in the internal
atom_t field of the obj_t struct, and are always stored to be the same
datatype as the object to which they are attached. Level-3 variants no
longer take scalar arguments, however, level-3 internal back-ends stll
do; this is so that the calling function can perform subproblems such
as C := C - alpha * A * B on-the-fly without needing to change either
of the scalars attached to A or B.
- Removed scalar argument from packm_int().
- Observe and apply attached scalars in scalm_int(), and removed scalar
from interface of scalm_unb_var1().
- Renamed the following functions (and corresponding invocations):
bli_obj_init_scalar_copy_of()
-> bli_obj_scalar_init_detached_copy_of()
bli_obj_init_scalar() -> bli_obj_scalar_init_detached()
bli_obj_create_scalar_with_attached_buffer()
-> bli_obj_create_1x1_with_attached_buffer()
bli_obj_scalar_equals() -> bli_obj_equals()
- Defined new functions:
bli_obj_scalar_detach()
bli_obj_scalar_attach()
bli_obj_scalar_apply_scalar()
bli_obj_scalar_reset()
bli_obj_scalar_has_nonzero_imag()
bli_obj_scalar_equals()
- Placed all bli_obj_scalar_* functions in a new file, bli_obj_scalar.c.
- Renamed the following macros:
bli_obj_scalar_buffer() -> bli_obj_buffer_for_1x1()
bli_obj_is_scalar() -> bli_obj_is_1x1()
- Defined new macros to set and copy internal scalars between objects:
bli_obj_set_internal_scalar()
bli_obj_copy_internal_scalar()
- In level-3 internal back-ends, added conditional blocks where alpha and
beta are checked for non-unit-ness. Those values for alpha and beta are
applied to the scalars attached to aliases of A/B/C, as appropriate,
before being passed into the variant specified by the control tree.
- In level-3 blocked variants, pass BLIS_ONE into subproblems instead of
alpha and/or beta.
- In level-3 macro-kernels, changed how scalars are obtained. Now, scalars
attached to A and B are multiplied together to obtain alpha, while beta
is obtained directly from C.
- In level-3 front-ends, removed old function calls meant to provide
future support for mixed domain/precision. These can be added back later
once that functionality is given proper treatment. Also, removed the
creating of copy-casts of alpha and beta since typecasting of scalars
is now implicitly handled in the internal back-ends when alpha and
beta are applied to the attached scalars.
Details:
- Removed does_scale field from packm control tree node and
bli_packm_cntl_obj_create() interface. Adjusted all invocations of
_cntl_obj_create() accordingly.
- Redefined/renamted macros that are used in aliasing so that now,
bli_obj_alias_to() does a full alias (shallow copy) while
bli_obj_alias_for_packing() does a partial alias that preserves the
pack_mem-related fields of the aliasing (destination) object.
- Removed bli_trmm3_cntl.c, .h after realizing that the trmm control tree
will work just fine for bli_trmm3().
- Removed some commented vestiges of the typecasting functionality needed
to support heterogeneous datatypes.
Details:
- Removed support for duplication from the gemmtrsm/trsm micro-kernels
and all framework code.
- Updated test suite modules according to above changes.
Details:
- Redefined dim_t and inc_t in terms of gint_t (instead of guint_t).
This will facilitate interoperability with Fortran in the future.
(Fortran does not support unsigned integers.)
- Redefined many instances of stride-related macros so that they return
or use the absolute value of the strides, rather than the raw strides
which may now be signed. Added new macros bli_is_row_stored_f() and
bli_is_col_stored_f(), which assume positive (forward-oriented) strides,
and changed the packm_blk_var[23] variants to use these macros instead
of the existing bli_is_row_stored(), bli_is_col_stored().
- Added/adjusted typecasting to to various functions/macros, including
bli_obj_alloc_buffer(), bli_obj_buffer_at_off(), and various pointer-
related macros in bli_param_macro_defs.h.
- Redefined bli_convert_blas_incv() macro so that the BLAS compatibility
layer properly handles situations where vector increments are negative.
Thanks to Vladimir Sukharev for pointing out this issue.
- Changed type of increment parameters in bli_adjust_strides() from dim_t
to inc_t. Likewise in bli_check_matrix_strides().
- Defined bli_check_matrix_object(), which checks for negative strides.
- Redefined bli_check_scalar_object() and bli_check_vector_object() so
that they also check for negative stride.
- Added instances of bli_check_matrix_object() to various operations'
_check routines.
Details:
- Re-defined abval2s and sqrt2s macros to use scaling to avoid underflow
and overflow from squaring the real and imaginary components. (This is
the same technique used to fix recent bugs in invscals/invscaljs and
inverts.)
Details:
- Fixed complex inversion in invscals and invscaljs whereby the
imaginary component was being computed incorrectly.
- Use bli_fmaxabs() instead of bli_fabs() when choosing the scalar
in inverts, invscals, and invscaljs.
- Changed bli_abs() and bli_fabs() macro definitions to use "<="
operator instead of "<".
Details:
- Fixed the complex bli_?inverts() macros, which were inverting elements
in an "unsafe" manner, such that very large and very small values were
unnecessarily over/under-flowing. Thanks for Vladimir Sukharev for
reporting this bug.
- Comment update to bli_sumsqv_unb_var1.c.
- Removed redundant bli_min() macro in bli_scalar_macro_defs.h.
- Changed 1.0F to 1.0 for bli_drands() macro.
Details:
- Added test modules in test suite for level-1f kernels and level-3
micro-kernels. (Duplication in the micro-kernels, for now, is NOT
supported by these test modules.)
- Added section override switches to test suite's input.operations file.
- Added obj_t APIs for level-1f front-ends and their unblocked variants to
facilitate the level-1f test modules. Also added front-end for dupl
operation.
- Added obj_t-based check routines for level-1f operations, which are
called from the new front-ends mentioned above.
- Added query routines for axpyf, dotxf, and dotxaxpyf that return fusing
factors as a function of datatype, which is needed by their respective
test modules.
- Whitespace changes to bli_kernel.h of all existing configurations.
Details:
- Added a 'template' configuration, which contains stub implementations of the
level 1, 1f, and 3 kernels with one datatype implemented in C for each, with
lots of in-file comments and documentation.
- Modified some variable/parameter names for some 1/1f operations. (e.g.
renaming vector length parameter from m to n.)
- Moved level-1f fusing factors from axpyf, dotxf, and dotxaxpyf header files
to bli_kernel.h.
- Modifed test suite to print out fusing factors for axpyf, dotxf, and
dotxaxpyf, as well as the default fusing factor (which are all equal
in the reference and template implementations).
- Cleaned up some sloppiness in the level-1f unb_var1.c files whereby these
reference variants were implemented in terms of front-end routines rather
that directly in terms of the kernels. (For example, axpy2v was implemented
as two calls to axpyv rather than two calls to AXPYV_KERNEL.)
- Changed the interface to dotxf so that it matches that of axpyf, in that
A is assumed to be m x b_n in both cases, and for dotxf A is actually used
as A^T.
- Minor variable naming and comment changes to reference micro-kernels in
frame/3/gemm/ukernels and frame/3/trsm/ukernels.
Details:
- Expanded on cpp macro definitions from bli_mem.c and relocated them to
a new header file, frame/include/bli_mem_pool_macro_defs.h. The expanded
functionality includes computing the pool size for each datatype (using
that datatype's cache blocksizes) and using the maximum to size the
actual pool array. This addresses the somewhat common pitfall whereby a
developer updates cache blocksizes in bli_kernel.h for only one datatype
(say, single-precision real), while the memory pools are sized using the
double-precision real values. Then, when the developer attempts to link
to and run a level-3 BLIS routine (e.g. dgemm), the library aborts with
a message saying the static memory pool was exhausted. Clearly, this
message is misleading when the pool was not sized properly to begin with.
- Removed previously disabled code in bli_kernel_macro_defs.h that was
meant to check for size consistency among the various cache blocksizes.
(Obviously the memory pool size-based solution mentioned above is better.)
- Added BLIS_SIZEOF_? cpp macros to bli_type_defs.h. This seemed like a
reasonable place to put these constants, rather than further crowd up
bli_config.h.
- Updated testsuite driver to output memory pool sizes for A, B, and C.
- Minor comment updates to bli_config.h.
- Removed 'flame' configuration. It was beginning to get out-of-date, and
I hadn't used it in months. We can always re-create it later.
Details:
- Added a new cpp macro in bli_config.h, BLIS_INT_TYPE_SIZE, which can be
assigned values of 32, 64, or some other value. The former two result in
defining gint_t/guint_t in terms of 32- or 64-bit integers, while the latter
causes integers to be defined in terms of a default type (e.g. long int).
- Updated bli_config.h in reference and clarksville configurations according
to above changes.
- Updated test drivers in test and testsuite to avoid type warnings associated
with format specifiers not matching the types of their arguments to printf()
and scanf().
- Inserted missing #include "bli_system.h" into blis.h (which was slated for
inclusion in d141f9eeb6).
- Added explicit typecasting of dim_t and inc_t to macros in
bli_blas_macro_defs.h (which are used in BLAS compatibility layer).
- Slight changes to CREDITS and INSTALL files.
- Slight tweaks to Windows build system, mostly in the form of switching to
Windows-style CRLF newlines for certain files.
Details:
- Added a 'windows' directory, which contains a Windows build system
similar to that of libflame's. Thanks to Martin for getting this up
and running.
- Spun off system header #includes into bli_system.h, which is included
in blis.h
- Added a Windows section to bli_clock.c (similar to libflame's).
Details:
- Redefined gint_t and guint_t in terms of the standard C types long int
and unsigned long int, respectively.
- Changed testsuite default max problem size to 500.
- Changed testsuite input.operations to use square problems for level-3
operation tests.
Details:
- In light of recent segfaulting issues when compiling on 32-bit systems,
I've changed the default typedef for gint_t and guint_t from int64_t and
uint64_t to int32_t and uint32_t, respectively.
- Disabled 64-bit integers in the blas2blis layer for the reference
configuration.
- Added type sizes of gint_t, guint_t, and the four floating-point datatypes
to introductory output of the testsuite.
Details:
- Added missing C preprocessor guards in bli_kernel_macro_defs.h that enforce
constraints on the register blocksizes relative to the cache blocksizes.
Thanks to Tyler for helping me stumble across this issue.
Details:
- Fixed various warnings output by gcc 4.6.3-1, including removing some
set-but-not-used variables and addressing some instances of typecasting
of pointer types to integer types of different sizes.
Details:
- Modified the definitions of some macros, such as bli_is_real(), so that
the "special" bit is taken into account so that BLIS_INT is differentiated
from BLIS_FLOAT.
- Whitespace changes to bli_obj_macro_defs.h.
- Removed BLIS_SPECIAL_BIT definition from bli_type_defs.h, since it wasn't
being used.
Details:
- Added support for C99 complex types to bli_type_defs.h and overloaded
complex arithmetic to the scalar-level macros in include/level0. This
includes a somewhat substantial reorganization and re-layering of much
of the existing machinery present in the level0 macros.
- Added new #define for BLIS_ENABLE_C99_COMPLEX to bli_config.h files,
commented-out by default, which optionally enables the use of built-in
C99 complex types and arithmetic.
- Minor changes to clarksville and reference configs' make_defs.mk files.
- Removed macro definitions from bli_param_macro_defs.h which was not being
used (bli_proj_dt_to_real_if_imag_eq0).
Details:
- Removed copynzv and copynzm operation directories. These operations
implemented a variation of copyv/m that, in the case of real source
and complex destination operands, leaves the imaginary component
untouched (rather than setting it to zero). I realize now that the
special case(s) (e.g. gemm with real A and B but complex C) that I
thought required this operation actually can be handled more simply.
- Removed level0 scalar macros implementing copynzs, copynzjs.
Details:
- Removed the #include <stdint.h> from blis.h and inserted a cpp macro block
in bli_type_defs.h that #includes <stdint.h> for C++ and C99, and otherwise
manually typedefs the types we need (which, for now, are unconditionally
int64_t and uint64_t).
- Moved basic typedefs to top of bli_type_defs.h, and comment changes.
- Added cpp macro block to bli_macro_defs.h that #defines restrict as
nothing for C++ and non-C99.
Details:
- Changed the way bli_type_defs.h defines integer types so that dim_t,
inc_t, doff_t, etc. are all defined in terms of gint_t (general signed
integer) or guint_t (general unsigned integer).
- Renamed Fortran types fchar and fint to f77_char and f77_int.
- Define f77_int as int64_t if a new configuration variable,
BLIS_ENABLE_BLIS2BLAS_INT64, is defined, and int32_t otherwise.
These types are defined in stdint.h, which is now included in blis.h.
- Renamed "complex" type in f2c files to "singlecomplex" and typedef'ed
in terms of scomplex.
- Renamed "char" type in f2c files to "character" and typedef'ed in terms
of char.
- Updated bla_amax() wrappers so that the return type is defined directly
as f77_int, rather than letting the prototype-generating macro decide
the type. This was the only use of GENTFUNC2I/GENTPROT2I-related macros,
so I removed them. Also, changed the body of the wrapper so that a
gint_t is passed into abmaxv, which is THEN typecast to an f77_int
before returning the value.
- Updated f2c code that accessed .r and .i fields of complex and
doublecomplex types so that they use .real and .imag instead (now that
we are using scomplex and dcomplex).
Details:
- Added support for an experimental gemm macro-kernel incrementally
packs one micro-panel of B at a time. This is useful for certain
special cases of gemm where m is small.
- Minor changes to default values of clarksville configuration.
- Defined BLIS_PACKED_BLOCKS as part of pack_t type, even though we
do not yet have any use (or implementation support) for block storage.
- Comment update to bli_packm_init.c.
Details:
- Consolidated lower and upper blocked variants for herk and her2k, and
renamed the resulting variants, according to the same changes recently
made to trmm and trsm.
- Implemented support for four new subpartitions types:
BLIS_SUBPART1T
BLIS_SUBPART1B
BLIS_SUBPART1L
BLIS_SUBPART1R
which correspond to "merged" partitions that include the middle "1"
partition as well as either the neighboring "0" or "2" partition. This is
used to clean up code in herk/her2k var2 that attempts to partition away
the strictly zero region above or below the diagonal of a matrix operand
that is being marched through diagonally.
- Added safeguards to herk macro-kernels that skip any leading or trailing
zero region in the panel of C that is passed in. This is now needed given
that herk/her2k var1 no longer partitions off this zero region before
calling the macro-kernel (via bli_her[2]k_int()).
- Updated comments and other whitespace changes to trmm/trsm macro-kernels.
Details:
- Implemented algorithmic optimizations for trmm and trsm whereby the right
side case is now handled explicitly, rather than induced indirectly by
transposing and swapping strides on operands. This allows us to walk through
the output matrix with favorable access patterns no matter how it is stored,
for all parameter combinations.
- Renamed trmm and trsm blocked variants so that there is no longer a
lower/upper distinction. Instead, we simply label the variants by which
dimension is partitioned and whether the variant marches forwards or
backwards through the corresponding partitioned operands.
- Added support for row-stored packing of lower and upper triangular matrices
(as provided by bli_packm_blk_var3.c).
- Fixed a performance bug in bli_determine_blocksize_b() whereby the cache
blocksize extensions (if non-zero) were not being used to appropriately size
the first iteration (ie: the bottom/right edge case).
- Updated comments in bli_kernel.h to indicate that both MC and NC must be
whole multiples of MR AND NR. This is needed for the case of trsm_r where,
in order to reuse existing left-side gemmtrsm fused micro-kernels, the
packing of A (left-hand operand) and B (right-hand operand) is done with
NR and MR, respectively (instead of MR and NR).
Details:
- Implemented remaining two cases within bli_packm_blk_var2(), which allow
packing from a lower or upper-stored symmetric/Hermitian matrix to column
panels (which are row-stored). Previously one could only pack to row panels
(which are column-stored).
- Implemented various optimizations in the level-3 front-ends that allow more
favorable access through row-stored matrices for gemm, hemm, herk, her2k,
symm, syrk, and syr2k.
- Cleaned up code in level-3 front-ends that has to do with setting target and
execution datatypes.
Details:
- Updated level-1/-1f kernels so that non-unit and un-aligned cases are
handled by reference implementation (rather than aborted).
- Added -fomit-frame-pointer to default make_defs.mk for clarksville
configuration.
- Defined bli_offset_from_alignment() macro.
- Minor edits to old test drivers.
Details:
- Replaced instances of axpys with alpha equal to -1 with subs.
- Use BLIS_MAX_TYPE_SIZE to define BLIS_CONSTANT_SLOT_SIZE instead of
sizeof(dcomplex).
Details:
- Fixed bugs in trmv_l and trsv_u due to backwards iteration resulting in
unaligned subpartitions. We were already going out of our way a bit to
handle edge cases in the first iteration for blocked variants, and this
was simply the unblocked-fused extension of that idea.
- Fixed control tree handling in her/her2/syr/syr2 that was not taking
into account how the choice of variant needed to be altered for
upper-stored matrices (given that only lower-stored algorithms are
explicitly implemented).
- Added bli_determine_blocksize_dim_f(), bli_determine_blocksize_dim_b()
macros to provide inlined versions of bli_determine_blocksize_[fb]() for
use by unblocked-fused variants.
- Integrated new blocksize_dim macros into gemv/hemv unf variants for
consistency with that of the bugfix for trmv/trsv (both of which now
use the same macros).
- Modified bli_obj_vector_inc() so that 1 is returned if the object is a
vector of length 1 (ie: 1 x 1). This fixes a bug whereby under certain
conditions (e.g. dotv_opt_var1), an invalid increment was returned, which
was invalid only because the code was expecting 1 (for purposes of
performing contiguous vector loads) but got a value greater than 1 because
the column stride of the object (e.g. rho) was inflated for alignment
purposes (albeit unnecessarily since there is only one element in the
object).
- Replaced some old invocations of set0 with set0s.
- Added alpha parameter to gemmtrsm ukernels for x86_64 and use accordingly.
- Fixed increment bug in cleanup loop of gemm ukernel for x86_64.
- Added safeguard to test modules so that testing a problem with a zero
dimension does not result in a failure.
- Tweaked handling of zero dimensions in level-2 and level-3 operations'
internal back-ends to correctly handle cases where output operand still
needs to be scaled (e.g. by beta, in the case of gemm with k = 0).
Details:
- Renamed the following macros:
bli_obj_set_trans() -> bli_obj_set_onlytrans()
bli_obj_trans_status() -> bli_obj_onlytrans_status()
to remove ambiguity as to which bits are read/updated.
Details:
- Revamped some parts of commit b6ef84fad1 by adding blocksize extension
fields to the blksz_t object rather than have them as separate structs.
- Updated all packm interfaces/invocations according to above change.
- Generalized bli_determine_blocksize_?() so that edge case optimization
happens if and only if cache blocksizes are created with non-zero
extensions.
- Updated comments in bli_kernel.h files to indicate that the edge case
blocksize extension mechanism is now available for use.
Details:
- Updated _cntl.c files for each level-3 operation to induce blocked
algorithms that first paritition in the n dimension with a blocksize
of NC. Typically this is not an issue since only very large problems
exceed that of NC. But developers often run very large problems, and
so this extra blocking should be the default.
- Removed some recently introduced but now unused macros from
bli_param_macro_defs.h.
Details:
- Replaced multi-type invocations of copys_mxn, xpbys_mxn, etc. (PASTEMAC2
and PASTEMAC3) with those that only use a single type (PASTEMAC).
- Added extra macros to bli_adds_mxn_uplo.h and bli_xpbys_mxn_uplo.h to
accommodate above change.
- Fixed comment typo in bli_config.h files.
- Added .nfs* pattern to .gitignore.
Details:
- Added two more arguments to the gemm and gemmtrsm microkernels: the
addresses of the next micro-panels of A and B. By passing these
pointers into the micro-kernel, we allow the micro-kernel author to
prefetch micro-panels of A and B as necessary (though this is
completely optional; these addresses may also be safely ignored).
- Updated all seven macro-kernels so that they compute and pass in
a_next and b_next. Note that ONLY the gemm macro-kernel computes
a_next and b_next with the precise semantics we want. I will go back
and fix the other macro-kernels in the near future.
- Added 'restrict' to various micro-kernels from which it was missing.
Details:
- Temporarily disabled checks that ensure that enough memory will be allocated
by the contiguous memory allocator for all types, given that the values for
double precision real are the ones used to allocate the space. These checks
can easily go awry in certain situations, especially if you are developing for
only one datatype. So for now, they are probably more trouble than they are
worth.
Details:
- Made substantial changes throughout the framework to decouple the leading
dimension (row or column stride) used within each packed micro-panel from
the corresponding register blocksize. It appears advantageous on some
systems to use, for example, packed micro-panels of A where the column
stride is greater than MR (whereas previously it was always equal to MR).
- Changes include:
- Added BLIS_EXTEND_[MNK]R_? macros, which specify how much extra padding
to use when packing micro-panels of A and B.
- Adjusted all packing routines and macro-kernels to use PACKMR and PACKNR
where appropriate, instead of MR and NR.
- Added pd field (panel dimension) to obj_t.
- New interface to bli_packm_cntl_obj_create().
- Renamed bli_obj_packed_length()/_width() macros to
bli_obj_padded_length()/_width().
- Removed local #defines for cache/register blocksizes in level-3 *_cntl.c.
- Print out new cache and register blocksize extensions in test suite.
- Also added new BLIS_EXTEND_[MNK]C_? macros for future use in using a larger
blocksize for edge cases, which can improve performance at the margins.
