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.
For #1416 and #1529, more information about the options OpenBLAS was built with is needed. Additionally we may want to add this data to the openblas.pc file (but not all projects use pkgconfig, and as far as I am aware the cmake module for accessing it does not make such "private" declarations available)
Even if we're directly using the win32 threading driver and not pthreads,
pthread_atfork still works fine to register a pre-fork handler, and is
necessary to restore the threading server to a pre-initialized state.
* Calculation of chunk range limits was ignoring num_cpu
bug introduced by me in #1262 - should fix#1388
* Calculation of range limits was ignoring num_cpu
bug introduced by me in #1262
* Calculation of chunk range limits was ignoring num_cpu
bug introduced by me in #1262
* Calculation of chunk range limits was ignoring num_cpu
bug introduced by me in #1262
* Calculation of chunk range limits was ignoring num_cpu
bug introduced by me in #1262
* Calculation of chunk range limits was ignoring num_cpu
bug introduced by me in #1262
Some Linux distributions (notably SuSE) have raised CPU_SETSIZE to 4096, apparently disregarding API limitations.
From #1348, the highest value to survive array initialization (on a desktop system) is 3232, and 1024 - which is the
more usual CPU_SETSIZE limit, was demonstrated to work fine on an actual bignuma system.
Failures to obtain or attach shared memory segments would lead to an exit without explanation of the exact cause.
This change introduces a more verbose error message and tries to make the code continue without setting cpu affinity.
Fixes#1351
Martin Kroeker
Arjan van de Ven
Matthew Brett
zhiyong.dang
Zhang Xianyi
Alex Arslan
Erik M. Bray
Andrew