Enable DYNAMIC_ARCH feature on ARM64. This patch uses the cpuid
feature in linux kernel to detect the core type at runtime
(https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/arm64/cpu-feature-registers.txt).
If this feature is missing in kernel, then the user should use the
OPENBLAS_CORETYPE env variable to select the desired core type.
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.
The deprecated -openmp option was finally removed in favor of -qopenmp or -fopenmp, picking the latter to stay compatible with Intel compiler versions before 2015 (when -q options were introduced). Fixes#1546
- retry fortran compiler test with aix-specific option if generic -m32/-m64 fails
- pass any custom ARFLAGS to lapack
- no addition of -m32/-m64 to the CFLAGS and FFLAGS on AIX
On ARM the required math library depends on whether the soft floating
point ABI is used or not but this is already handled in
`Makefile.system`, lines 499-505.
Since softfp code has been added to all required vfp kernels,
the code for auto detection of abi is no longer required.
The option to force softfp ABI on make command line by giving
ARM_SOFTFP_ABI=1 is retained. But there is no need to give this option
anymore.
Also the newly added C versions of 4x4/4x2 gemm/trmm kernels are removed.
These are longer required. Moreover these kernels has bugs.
If ARM abi is not explicitly mentioned on the command line, then set the
arm abi to softfp or hard according to the compiler environment.
This assumes that compiler sets the defines __ARM_PCS and __ARM_PCS_VFP
accordingly.
Martin Kroeker
Andrew
pkubaj
Ashwin Sekhar T K
Arjan van de Ven
Zhang Xianyi
Zhiyong Dang
Alex Arslan
Erik M. Bray
Shivraj Patil
Christoph Conrads
Zhang Xianyi