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blis/frame/thread/bli_thrcomm_pthreads.c
Field G. Van Zee ecbebe7c2e Defined rntm_t to relocate cntx_t.thrloop (#235).
Details:
- Defined a new struct datatype, rntm_t (runtime), to house the thrloop
  field of the cntx_t (context). The thrloop array holds the number of
  ways of parallelism (thread "splits") to extract per level-3
  algorithmic loop until those values can be used to create a
  corresponding node in the thread control tree (thrinfo_t structure),
  which (for any given level-3 invocation) usually happens by the time
  the macrokernel is called for the first time.
- Relocating the thrloop from the cntx_t remedies a thread-safety issue
  when invoking level-3 operations from two or more application threads.
  The race condition existed because the cntx_t, a pointer to which is
  usually queried from the global kernel structure (gks), is supposed to
  be a read-only. However, the previous code would write to the cntx_t's
  thrloop field *after* it had been queried, thus violating its read-only
  status. In practice, this would not cause a problem when a sequential
  application made a multithreaded call to BLIS, nor when two or more
  application threads used the same parallelization scheme when calling
  BLIS, because in either case all application theads would be using
  the same ways of parallelism for each loop. The true effects of the
  race condition were limited to situations where two or more application
  theads used *different* parallelization schemes for any given level-3
  call.
- In remedying the above race condition, the application or calling
  library can now specify the parallelization scheme on a per-call basis.
  All that is required is that the thread encode its request for
  parallelism into the rntm_t struct prior to passing the address of the
  rntm_t to one of the expert interfaces of either the typed or object
  APIs. This allows, for example, one application thread to extract 4-way
  parallelism from a call to gemm while another application thread
  requests 2-way parallelism. Or, two threads could each request 4-way
  parallelism, but from different loops.
- A rntm_t* parameter has been added to the function signatures of most
  of the level-3 implementation stack (with the most notable exception
  being packm) as well as all level-1v, -1d, -1f, -1m, and -2 expert
  APIs. (A few internal functions gained the rntm_t* parameter even
  though they currently have no use for it, such as bli_l3_packm().)
  This required some internal calls to some of those functions to
  be updated since BLIS was already using those operations internally
  via the expert interfaces. For situations where a rntm_t object is
  not available, such as within packm/unpackm implementations, NULL is
  passed in to the relevant expert interfaces. This is acceptable for
  now since parallelism is not obtained for non-level-3 operations.
- Revamped how global parallelism is encoded. First, the conventional
  environment variables such as BLIS_NUM_THREADS and BLIS_*_NT  are only
  read once, at library initialization. (Thanks to Nathaniel Smith for
  suggesting this to avoid repeated calls getenv(), which can be slow.)
  Those values are recorded to a global rntm_t object. Public APIs, in
  bli_thread.c, are still available to get/set these values from the
  global rntm_t, though now the "set" functions have additional logic
  to ensure that the values are set in a synchronous manner via a mutex.
  If/when NULL is passed into an expert API (meaning the user opted to
  not provide a custom rntm_t), the values from the global rntm_t are
  copied to a local rntm_t, which is then passed down the function stack.
  Calling a basic API is equivalent to calling the expert APIs with NULL
  for the cntx and rntm parameters, which means the semantic behavior of
  these basic APIs (vis-a-vis multithreading) is unchanged from before.
- Renamed bli_cntx_set_thrloop_from_env() to bli_rntm_set_ways_for_op()
  and reimplemented, with the function now being able to treat the
  incoming rntm_t in a manner agnostic to its origin--whether it came
  from the application or is an internal copy of the global rntm_t.
- Removed various global runtime APIs for setting the number of ways of
  parallelism for individual loops (e.g. bli_thread_set_*_nt()) as well
  as the corresponding "get" functions. The new model simplifies these
  interfaces so that one must either set the total number of threads, OR
  set all of the ways of parallelism for each loop simultaneously (in a
  single function call).
- Updated sandbox/ref99 according to above changes.
- Rewrote/augmented docs/Multithreading.md to document the three methods
  (and two specific ways within each method) of requesting parallelism
  in BLIS.
- Removed old, disabled code from bli_l3_thrinfo.c.
- Whitespace changes to code (e.g. bli_obj.c) and docs/BuildSystem.md.
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/*
BLIS
An object-based framework for developing high-performance BLAS-like
libraries.
Copyright (C) 2014, The University of Texas at Austin
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*/
#include "blis.h"
#ifdef BLIS_ENABLE_PTHREADS
thrcomm_t* bli_thrcomm_create( dim_t n_threads )
{
thrcomm_t* comm = bli_malloc_intl( sizeof(thrcomm_t) );
bli_thrcomm_init( comm, n_threads );
return comm;
}
void bli_thrcomm_free( thrcomm_t* comm )
{
if ( comm == NULL ) return;
bli_thrcomm_cleanup( comm );
bli_free_intl( comm );
}
#ifdef BLIS_USE_PTHREAD_BARRIER
void bli_thrcomm_init( thrcomm_t* comm, dim_t n_threads)
{
if ( comm == NULL ) return;
comm->sent_object = NULL;
comm->n_threads = n_threads;
pthread_barrier_init( &comm->barrier, NULL, n_threads );
}
void bli_thrcomm_cleanup( thrcomm_t* comm )
{
if ( comm == NULL ) return;
pthread_barrier_destroy( &comm->barrier );
}
void bli_thrcomm_barrier( thrcomm_t* comm, dim_t t_id )
{
pthread_barrier_wait( &comm->barrier );
}
#else
void bli_thrcomm_init( thrcomm_t* comm, dim_t n_threads)
{
if ( comm == NULL ) return;
comm->sent_object = NULL;
comm->n_threads = n_threads;
comm->barrier_sense = 0;
comm->barrier_threads_arrived = 0;
//#ifdef BLIS_USE_PTHREAD_MUTEX
// pthread_mutex_init( &comm->mutex, NULL );
//#endif
}
void bli_thrcomm_cleanup( thrcomm_t* comm )
{
//#ifdef BLIS_USE_PTHREAD_MUTEX
// if ( comm == NULL ) return;
// pthread_mutex_destroy( &comm->mutex );
//#endif
}
void bli_thrcomm_barrier( thrcomm_t* comm, dim_t t_id )
{
#if 0
if ( comm == NULL || comm->n_threads == 1 ) return;
bool_t my_sense = comm->sense;
dim_t my_threads_arrived;
#ifdef BLIS_USE_PTHREAD_MUTEX
pthread_mutex_lock( &comm->mutex );
my_threads_arrived = ++(comm->threads_arrived);
pthread_mutex_unlock( &comm->mutex );
#else
my_threads_arrived = __sync_add_and_fetch(&(comm->threads_arrived), 1);
#endif
if ( my_threads_arrived == comm->n_threads )
{
comm->threads_arrived = 0;
comm->sense = !comm->sense;
}
else
{
volatile bool_t* listener = &comm->sense;
while( *listener == my_sense ) {}
}
#endif
bli_thrcomm_barrier_atomic( comm, t_id );
}
#endif
void* bli_l3_thread_entry( void* data_void );
// A data structure to assist in passing operands to additional threads.
typedef struct thread_data
{
l3int_t func;
opid_t family;
obj_t* alpha;
obj_t* a;
obj_t* b;
obj_t* beta;
obj_t* c;
cntx_t* cntx;
rntm_t* rntm;
cntl_t* cntl;
dim_t id;
thrcomm_t* gl_comm;
} thread_data_t;
// Entry point for additional threads
void* bli_l3_thread_entry( void* data_void )
{
thread_data_t* data = data_void;
l3int_t func = data->func;
opid_t family = data->family;
obj_t* alpha = data->alpha;
obj_t* a = data->a;
obj_t* b = data->b;
obj_t* beta = data->beta;
obj_t* c = data->c;
cntx_t* cntx = data->cntx;
rntm_t* rntm = data->rntm;
cntl_t* cntl = data->cntl;
dim_t id = data->id;
thrcomm_t* gl_comm = data->gl_comm;
obj_t a_t, b_t, c_t;
cntl_t* cntl_use;
thrinfo_t* thread;
// Alias thread-local copies of A, B, and C. These will be the objects
// we pass down the algorithmic function stack. Making thread-local
// alaises IS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT and MUST BE DONE because each thread
// will read the schemas from A and B and then reset the schemas to
// their expected unpacked state (in bli_l3_cntl_create_if()).
bli_obj_alias_to( a, &a_t );
bli_obj_alias_to( b, &b_t );
bli_obj_alias_to( c, &c_t );
// Create a default control tree for the operation, if needed.
bli_l3_cntl_create_if( family, &a_t, &b_t, &c_t, cntl, &cntl_use );
// Create the root node of the current thread's thrinfo_t structure.
bli_l3_thrinfo_create_root( id, gl_comm, rntm, cntl_use, &thread );
func
(
alpha,
&a_t,
&b_t,
beta,
&c_t,
cntx,
rntm,
cntl_use,
thread
);
// Free the control tree, if one was created locally.
bli_l3_cntl_free_if( &a_t, &b_t, &c_t, cntl, cntl_use, thread );
// Free the current thread's thrinfo_t structure.
bli_l3_thrinfo_free( thread );
return NULL;
}
void bli_l3_thread_decorator
(
l3int_t func,
opid_t family,
obj_t* alpha,
obj_t* a,
obj_t* b,
obj_t* beta,
obj_t* c,
cntx_t* cntx,
rntm_t* rntm,
cntl_t* cntl
)
{
// Query the total number of threads from the context.
dim_t n_threads = bli_rntm_num_threads( rntm );
// Allocate an array of pthread objects and auxiliary data structs to pass
// to the thread entry functions.
pthread_t* pthreads = bli_malloc_intl( sizeof( pthread_t ) * n_threads );
thread_data_t* datas = bli_malloc_intl( sizeof( thread_data_t ) * n_threads );
// Allocate a global communicator for the root thrinfo_t structures.
thrcomm_t* gl_comm = bli_thrcomm_create( n_threads );
// NOTE: We must iterate backwards so that the chief thread (thread id 0)
// can spawn all other threads before proceeding with its own computation.
for ( dim_t id = n_threads - 1; 0 <= id; id-- )
{
// Set up thread data for additional threads (beyond thread 0).
datas[id].func = func;
datas[id].family = family;
datas[id].alpha = alpha;
datas[id].a = a;
datas[id].b = b;
datas[id].beta = beta;
datas[id].c = c;
datas[id].cntx = cntx;
datas[id].rntm = rntm;
datas[id].cntl = cntl;
datas[id].id = id;
datas[id].gl_comm = gl_comm;
// Spawn additional threads for ids greater than 1.
if ( id != 0 )
pthread_create( &pthreads[id], NULL, &bli_l3_thread_entry, &datas[id] );
else
bli_l3_thread_entry( ( void* )(&datas[0]) );
}
// We shouldn't free the global communicator since it was already freed
// by the global communicator's chief thread in bli_l3_thrinfo_free()
// (called from the thread entry function).
// Thread 0 waits for additional threads to finish.
for ( dim_t id = 1; id < n_threads; id++ )
{
pthread_join( pthreads[id], NULL );
}
bli_free_intl( pthreads );
bli_free_intl( datas );
}
#endif