As the new MMA instructions need the inputs in 4x2 order for bfloat16,
changing the format in copy/packing code. This avoids permute instructions
in the gemm kernel inner loop.
The implementation of complex scalar * vector multiplication for Z14
makes some LAPACK tests fail because the numerical differences to the
reference implementation exceed the threshold (as can be seen by running
make lapack-test and replacing kernel/zarch/cscal.c with a generic
implementation for comparison).
The complex multiplication uses terms of the form a * b + c * d for both
real and imaginary parts. The assembly code (and compiler-emitted code
as well) uses fused multiply add operations for the second product and
sum. The results can be "surprising", for example when both terms in the
imaginary part nearly cancel each other out. In that case, the second
product contributes more digits to the sum than the first product that
has been rounded before.
One option is to use separate multiplications (which then round the same
way) and a distinct add. Change the code to pursue that path, by (1)
requesting the compiler not to contract the operations into FMAs and (2)
replacing the assembly kernel with corresponding vectorized C code
(where change 1 also applies).
Signed-off-by: Marius Hillenbrand <mhillen@linux.ibm.com>
1. Added bfloat16 based dot as new API: shdot
2. Implemented generic kernel and cooperlake-specific (AVX512-BF16) kernel for shdot
3. Added 4 conversion APIs for bfloat16 data type <=> single/double: shstobf16 shdtobf16 sbf16tos dbf16tod
shstobf16 -- convert single float array to bfloat16 array
shdtobf16 -- convert double float array to bfloat16 array
sbf16tos -- convert bfloat16 array to single float array
dbf16tod -- convert bfloat16 array to double float array
4. Implemented generic kernels for all 4 conversion APIs, and cooperlake-specific kernel for shstobf16 and shdtobf16
5. Update level1 thread facilitate functions and macros to support multi-threading for these new APIs
6. Fix Cooperlake platform detection/specify issue when under dynamic-arch building
7. Change the typedef of bfloat16 from unsigned short to more strict uint16_t
Signed-off-by: Chen, Guobing <guobing.chen@intel.com>