Details:
- Added a new API family, bli_info_*(), which can be used to query
information about how BLIS was configured. Most of these values are
returned as gint_t, with the exception of the version string which
is char*.
- Changed how the testsuite driver queries information about how BLIS
was configured (from using macro constants directly to using the
new bli_info API).
- Removed bli_version.c and its header file.
- Added STRINGIFY_INT() macro to bli_macro_defs.h
- Renamed info_t type in bli_type_defs.h to objbits_t (not because of
an actual naming conflict, but because the name 'info_t' would now be
somewhat misleading in the presence of the new bli_info API, as the
two are unrelated).
Details:
- Changed bla_amax.c so that i?amax() routines now correctly return 0
if ( n < 1 || incx <= 0 ).
- Changed bla_rotg.c and bla_rotmg.c to use bli_fabs() macro instead of
f2c's abs() macro for float and double cases.
- Thanks to Murtaza Ali for suggesting the two fixes above.
- Updated label of fnormv to normfv in testsuite/input.operations.
Details:
- Redefined xpbys_mxn and xpbys_mxn_u/_l macros to employ a copy
(instead of scaling by beta) when beta is zero. This will stamp out
any possible infs or NaNs in the output matrix, if it happens to be
uninitialized. Thanks to Tony Kelman for isolating this bug.
Details:
- Added wrappers for micro-kernels so that users may invoke the
micro-kernels without knowing what the function names actually are.
This is useful when an application wishes to call the micro-kernel
from a shared library instance of BLIS, where the application may not
necessarily have the luxury of grabbing the micro-kernel name(s) from
C preprocessor macros at compile-time. Also, since the wrappers use
void* pointers, one's environment does not need to be aware of some
BLIS types such as scomplex and dcomplex. These wrappers now join the
level-1 and level-1f kernel wrappers, which pre-dated this commit.
- Removed the wrapper definitions and prototypes from the micro-kernel
test suite modules, and replaced calls to them with calls to the new
wrappers mentioned above.
Should work fine for small number of threads (up to 8 or maybe even 16).
However, performance is yet untested.
This parallelizes the "JR" loop for the left sided cases
and the "IR" loop for the right sided cases.
Future work is to parallelize the outer loops as well.
Details:
- Modified top-level Makefile to support building shared (dynamic)
libraries.
- Updated most configurations' make_defs.mk files to include necessary
compiler/linker flags needed by top-level Makefile.
- Note that by default, all configurations presently do NOT build
shared libraries. To enable, one must change the value of
BLIS_ENABLE_DYNAMIC_BUILD to 'yes'.
Details:
- Fixed a bug in the dunnington/core2 gemm micro-kernels that resulted in
a segmentation fault if a column-stored matrix's starting address was
aligned, but its leading dimension was such that its second column was
unaligned. Basically, the micro-kernel was assuming that aligned load
instructions were safe when they actually were not. An extra condition
that checks the alignment of cs_c (ie: the leading dimension in the
column storage case) has now been added. Thanks to Michael Lehn for
reporting this bug.
No longer requires OpenMP to compile
Define the following in bli_config.h in order to enable multithreading:
BLIS_ENABLE_MULTITHREADING
BLIS_ENABLE_OPENMP
Also fixes a bug with bli_get_range_weighted
Details:
- Relaxed the constraint in bli_obj_attach_buffer_check(), which required
the buffer address being attached to be non-NULL. This is acceptable
because the user was already able to create and use objects with NULL
buffers (via bli_obj_create_without_buffer(), which initializes the
buffer to NULL).
- Inserted calls to newly defined function, bli_check_object_buffer(),
into nearly all operations' _check() or _int_check() functions. This
allows BLIS to abort peacefully if a computational routine is called
with an object containing a NULL buffer. By contrast, under such
conditions, BLAS would typically fail with a segmentation fault.
- Within operation front-ends, moved the calls to _check()/_int_check()
so that zero dimensions are checked first (and if found, execution
returns with trivial or no computation). This resolves issue #7. Thanks
to Jack Poulson for reporting this bug.
Details:
- Added a new field to blksz_t objects that allows one to attach a
sub-object. Doing this allows us to associate a register blocksize with
any given cache blocksize. That way, the register blocksize can be
queried wherever the cache blocksize would normally be accessible
(e.g. a blocked algorithm).
- Modified bli_gemm_cntl.c (and 4m/3m variants) so that the register
blocksizes are attached to the cache blocksizes after they are created.
Details:
- Changed level-2 _cntl.c files so that the blocksizes for gemv are
imported and used, rather than blocksizes being declared locally.
- Whitespace changes to gemv_cntl.c and gemm_cntl.c files (as well as
4m/3m variants).
- Removed test/old/test_blis2.c.
