This patch adds support for bfloat16 data type matrix multiplication kernel.
For architectures that don't support bfloat16, it is defined as unsigned short
(2 bytes). Default unroll sizes can be changed as per architecture as done for
SGEMM and for now 8 and 4 are used for M and N. Size of ncopy/tcopy can be
changed as per architecture requirement and for now, size 2 is used.
Added shgemm in kernel/power/KERNEL.POWER9 and tested in powerpc64le and
powerpc64. For reference, added a small test compare_sgemm_shgemm.c to compare
sgemm and shgemm output.
This patch does not cover OpenBLAS test, benchmark and lapack tests for shgemm.
Complex type implementation can be discussed and added once this is approved.
21eda8b5 introduced a check in getarch.c to test if the compiler is capable of
AVX512. This check currently fails, since the used __AVX2__ macro is only
defined if getarch itself was compiled with AVX2/AVX512 support. Make sure this
is the case by building getarch with -march=native on x86_64. It is only
supposed to run on the build host anyway.
This patch adds the basic infrastructure for adding the SkylakeX (Intel Skylake server)
target. The SkylakeX target will use the AVX512 (AVX512VL level) instruction set,
which brings 2 basic things:
1) 512 bit wide SIMD (2x width of AVX2)
2) 32 SIMD registers (2x the number on AVX2)
This initial patch only contains a trivial transofrmation of the Haswell SGEMM kernel
to AVX512VL; more will follow later but this patch aims to get the infrastructure
in place for this "later".
Full performance tuning has not been done yet; with more registers and wider SIMD
it's in theory possible to retune the kernels but even without that there's an
interesting enough performance increase (30-40% range) with just this change.
Without specifying thread count, NUM_THREADS would not be defined and CMake would fail.
This is because core count cannot be determined when cross-compiling.
Add support for not having host compiler as CMake cannot detect such a compiler.
Add support for not using getarch.
Successfully builds Android ARMV8. Any target can be added by supplying the TARGET_CORE config in prebuild.cmake.
If OpenBLAS is built using add_subdirectory(OpenBlas) as part of another project
then the paths set by CMAKE_XXX_DIR are relative to the parent project
and not the OpenBLAS project.
Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan
Martin Kroeker
Michael Lass
luz.paz
Arjan van de Ven
Zhiyong Dang
Sacha
Isuru Fernando
Neil Shipp
Denis Steckelmacher
John Biddiscombe
Zhang Xianyi
Hank Anderson