Details:
- Fixed incorrect number of mc_x_kc memory blocks in
sandybridge/bli_config.h.
- Enabled OpenMP multithreding in piledriver/bli_config.h.
- More updates to test/3m4m driver files.
Details:
- Enable OpenMP support by default in sandybridge's bli_config.h.
- Reorganized sandybridge's bli_kernel.h.
- Updated 3m4m Makefile, runme.sh to also test MKL implementation.
Details:
- Defined a new "3ms" (separated 3m) pack schema and added appropriate
support in packm_init(), packm_blk_var2().
- Generalized packm_struc_cxk_3mi to take the imaginary stride (is_p)
as an argument instead of computing it locally. Exception: for trmm,
is_p must be computed locally, since it changes for triangular
packed matrices. Also exposed is_p in interface to dt-specific
packm_blk_var2 (and _var1, even though it does not use imaginary
stride).
- Renamed many functions/variables from _3mi to _3mis to indicate that
they work for either interleaved or separated 3m pack schemas.
- Generalized gemm and herk macro-kernels to pass in imaginary stride
rather than compute them locally.
- Added support for 3m2 and 3m3 algorithms to frame/ind, including 3m2-
and 3m3-specific virtual micro-kernels.
- Added special gemm macro-kernels to support 3m2 and 3m3.
- Added support for 3m2 and 3m3 to testsuite.
- Corrected the type of the panel dimension (pd_) in various macro-
kernels from inc_t to dim_t.
- Renamed many functions defined in bli_blocksize.c.
- Moved most induced-related macro defs from frame/include to
frame/ind/include.
- Updated the _ukernel.c files so that the micro-kernel function pointers
are obtained from the func_t objects rather than the cpp macros that
define the function names.
- Updated test/3m4m driver, Makefile, and run script.
Details:
- Consolidated most of the code relating to induced complex methods
(e.g. 4mh, 4m1, 3mh, 3m1, etc.) into frame/ind. Induced methods
are now enabled on a per-operation basis. The current "available"
(enabled and implemented) implementation can then be queried on
an operation basis. Micro-kernel func_t objects as well as blksz_t
objects can also be queried in a similar maner.
- Redefined several micro-kernel and operation-related functions in
bli_info_*() API, in accordance with above changes.
- Added mr and nr fields to blksz_t object, which point to the mr
and nr blksz_t objects for each cache blocksize (and are NULL for
register blocksizes). Renamed the sub-blocksize field "sub" to
"mult" since it is really expressing a blocksize multiple.
- Updated bli_*_determine_kc_[fb]() for gemm/hemm/symm, trmm, and
trsm to correctly query mr and nr (for purposes of nudging kc).
- Introduced an enumerated opid_t in bli_type_defs.h that uniquely
identifies an operation. For now, only level-3 id values are defined,
along with a generic, catch-all BLIS_NOID value.
- Reworked testsuite so that all induced methods that are enabled
are tested (one at a time) rather than only testing the first
available method.
- Reformated summary at the beginning of testsuite output so that
blocksize and micro-kernel info is shown for each induced method
that was requested (as well as native execution).
- Reduced the number of columns needed to display non-matlab
testsuite output (from approx. 90 to 80).
Details:
- Fixed a bug that affects all level-2 and level-3 blocked variants. The
bug only manifested, however, if the packing of operands (A and B in
gemm, for example) spanned multiple nodes in the control tree. Until
recently, the main consumers of packm were level-3 operations, all of
which packed both input operands from blocked variant 1 (B outside of
the loop, and A within the loop). This particular usage masked a flaw
in the code whereby bli_obj_release_pack() would always release the
underlying mem_t buffer (provided it was allocated), even if the buffer
was not allocated in the current variant. This has been fixed by
replacing all calls to bli_obj_release_pack() with calls to a new
function, bli_packm_release(), which takes the same control tree node
argument passed into the object's corresponding call to packm_init()
or packv_init(). bli_packm_release() then proceeds to invoke
bli_obj_release_pack() only if the control tree node indicates that
packing was requested. Thanks to Devangi Parikh for identifying this
bug.
Details:
- Renamed all remaining 3m/4m packing files and symbols to 3mi/4mi
('i' for "interleaved"). Similar changes to 3M/4M macros.
- Renamed all 3m/4m files and functions to 3m1/4m1.
- Whitespace changes.
Details:
- Relocated bli_4mh.c, bli_4mb.c, bli_4m.c, bli_3mh.c, bli_3m.c (and
associated headers) from frame/base to frame/base/induced.
- Added bli_xm.? to frame/base/induced, which implements
bli_xm_is_enabled(), which detects whether ANY induced complex method
is currently enabled.
- The new function bli_xm_is_enabled() is now used in bli_info.c to
detect when an induced complex method is used, so we know when to
return blocksizes from one of the induced methods' blocksize objects.
Details:
- Changed the static memory definitions to compute the maximum register
blocksize for each datatype and add it to kc when computing the size
of blocks of A and B. This formally accounts for the nudging of kc
up to a multiple of mr or nr at runtime for triangular operations
(e.g. trmm).
Details:
- Renamed several variables and macros from 3m/4m to 3mi/4mi. This is
because those packing schemas were always implicitly "interleaved".
This new naming scheme will make way for new schemas that separate
instead of interleve the real and imaginary (and summed) parts.
- Expanded the pack format sub-field of the pack schema field of the
info_t to 4 bits (from 3). This will allow for more schema types
going forward.
- Removed old _cntl.c files for herk3m, herk4m, trmm3m, trmm4m.
Details:
- Fixed a bug that only affected trmm3 when performed via 3mh or 4mh,
whereby micro-panels of the triangular matrix were packed with "dead
space" between them due to failing to adjust for the fact that pointer
arithmetic was occurring in units of complex elements while the data
being packed consisted of real elements. It turns out that the macro-
kernel suffered from the same bug, meaning the panels were actually
being packed and read consistently. The only way I was able to
discover the bug in the first place was because the packed block of A
was overflowing into the beginning of the packed row panel of B using
the sandybridge configuration.
Details:
- Modified bli_packm_blk_var1.c and _var2.c to increase the triangular
case's panel increment by 1 if it would otherwise be odd. This is
particularly necessary in _var2.c when handling the interleaved 3m
or ro/io/rpi pack schemas, since division of an odd number by 2 can
happen if both the panel length and the panel packing dimension
(register packing blocksize) are odd, thus making their product odd.
- Modified bli_packm_init.c so that panel strides are increased by 1
if they would otherwise be odd, even for non-3m related packing.
- Modified the trmm and trsm macro-kernels so that triangular packed
micro-panels are traversed with this new "increment by 1 if odd"
policy.
- Added sanity checks in trmm and trsm macro-kernels that would result
in an abort() if the conditions that would lead to a "divide odd
integer by 2" scenario ever manifest.
- Defined bli_is_odd(), _is_even() macros in bli_scalar_macro_defs.h.
Details:
- Added an imaginary stride field ("is") to obj_t.
- Renamed bli_obj_set_incs() macro to bli_obj_set_strides().
- Defined bli_obj_imag_stride() and bli_obj_set_imag_stride() and
added invocations in key locations.
- Added some basic error-checking related to imaginary stride.
- For now, imaginary stride will not be exposed into the most-used
BLIS APIs such as bli_obj_create(), and certainly not the
computational APIs such as bli_dgemm().
Details:
- Added a new function, bli_gemm_cntl_ukrs(), that returns the func_t*
for the gemm micro-kernels from the leaf node of the control tree.
This allows all the func_t* fields from higher-level nodes in the tree
to be NULL, which makes the function that builds the control trees
slightly easier to read.
- Call bli_gemm_cntl_ukrs() instead of the cntl_gemm_ukrs() macro in
all bli_*_front() functions (which is needed to apply the row/column
preference optimization).
- In all level-3 bli_*_cntl_init() functions, changed the _obj_create()
function arguments corresponding to the gemm_ukrs fields in higher-
level cntl tree nodes to NULL.
- Removed some old her2k macro-kernels.
Details:
- Added optional flop counting to all level-3 front-ends, which is
enabled via BLIS_ENABLE_FLOP_COUNT. The flop count can be
reset at any time via bli_flop_count_reset() and queried via
bli_flop_count(). Caveats:
- flop counts are approximate for her[2]k, syr[2]k, trmm, and
trsm operations;
- flop counts ignore extra flops due to non-unit alpha;
- flop counts do not account for situations where beta is zero.
Details:
- Implemented a new function, bli_obj_imag_equals(), which compares the
imaginary part of the first argument to the second argument, which may
be a BLIS_CONSTANT or of a regular real datatype.
Details:
- Changed gemm_kc blocksizes to be reduced by two-thirds instead of
half.
- Changed 3m4m/test_gemm.c driver to divide by 3 instead of 2 when
computing the fixed k dimension.
- Fixed runme.sh so that it would use multiple threads for s/dgemm
cases.
Details:
- Added yet another 4m-based implementation for complex domain level-3
operations. This method, which the 3m/4m paper identifies as Algorithm
"4m_1b" fissures the first loop around the micro-kernel so that the
real sub-panel of the current micro-panel of B is multiplied against
(both sub-panels of) all micro-panels of A, before doing the same for
the imaginary sub-panel of the micro-panel of B. For now, only gemm is
supported, and 4m_1b (labeled "4mb" within the framework) is not yet
integrated into the test suite.
Details:
- Fixed a bug in certain structured level-2 operations that manifested
only when the structured matrix was provided to BLIS as matrix stored
with general stride. The bug was introduced in c472993b when the
densify field was removed from the packm control tree node and
associated APIs. Since then, the packed object was unconditionally
marked with an uplo field of BLIS_DENSE. This is fine for level-3
operations where micro-panels are always densified, but in level-2
contexts, the underlying unblocked variant (fused or unfused) of
structured operations (e.g. trmv) still needs to know whether to
execute its "lower" or "upper" branches of code. Since this field
was unconditionally being set to BLIS_DENSE, the unblocked variants
were always executed the "else" branch, which happened to be the
"lower" case code. Thus, running an upper case produced the wrong
answer. This most obviously manifested in the form of failures for
trmm, trmm3, and trsm in the test suite.
The bug was fixed by setting the packed object's uplo field to
BLIS_DENSE only if the schema indicated that micro-panels were to be
packed. Otherwise, we can assume we are packing to regular row or
column storage, as is the case with level-2 packing. Thanks to
Francisco Igual for reporting the testsuite failures and ultimately
leading us to this bug.
Lead thread of the inner thread communicator could exit subproblem, move on the next iteration of the loop and modify a1_pack, b1_pack, or c1_pack while other threads were still using those.
Barriers were inserted to fix this.
Details:
- No longer need to define BLIS_ENABLE_MULTITHREADING manually in
bli_config.h; it now gets defined when BLIS_ENABLE_OPENMP or
BLIS_ENABLE_PTHREADS is defined.
- Added sanity check to prevent both BLIS__ENABLE_OPENMP and
BLIS_ENABLE_PTHREADS from being enabled simultaneously.
- Reorganization of bli_threading*.h header files, which led to
simplification of threading-related part of blis.h.
- added "-fopenmp -lpthread" to LDFLAGS of sandybridge make_defs.mk
file.
Details:
- Since 4674ca8c, the constraint that KC be a multiple of both MR and
NR have been relaxed, and thus it was time to remove the comments
from the top of the bli_kernel.h files of all configurations.
Details:
- Added new micro-kernels for the AMD piledriver architecture (one
for each datatype).
- Updates and tweaks to piledriver configuration.
- Added 3xk packm micro-kernel support.
- Explicitly unrolled some of the smaller packm micro-kernels.
- Added notes to avx/sandybridge and piledriver micro-kernel files
acknowledging the influence of the corresponding kernel code in
OpenBLAS.
