It is based on the SSE version which is much more accurate, though very slightly slower.
This changeset also includes the following required changes:
- add packet-float to packet-int type traits
- add packet float<->int reinterpret casts
- add faster pselect for AVX based on blendv
Commit aa110e681b8b2237757a652ba47da49e1fbd2cd6
optimised the multiplication of small dyanmically
sized matrices by restricting the packet size to a maximum of 4, increasing
the chances that SIMD instructions are used in the computation. However, it
introduced a mismatch between the packet size and the requestedAlignment. This
mismatch can lead to crashes when the destination is not aligned. This patch
fixes the issue by ensuring that the AssignmentTraits are correctly computed
when using a restricted packet size.
* * *
Bind LinearPacketType to MaxPacketSize
This commit applies any packet size limit specified when instantiating
copy_using_evaluator_traits to the LinearPacketType, providing that the
size of the destination is not known at compile time.
* * *
Add unit test for restricted packet assignment
A new unit test is added to check that multiplication of small dynamically
sized matrices works correctly when the packet size is restricted to 4 and
the destination is unaligned.
* Support compiling without IO streams
Add the preprocessor definition EIGEN_NO_IO which, if defined,
disables all use of the IO streams part of the standard library.
INFO: From Compiling tensorflow/core/kernels/maxpooling_op_gpu.cu.cc:
/b/f/w/run/external/eigen_archive/Eigen/src/Core/arch/GPU/Half.h(197): error: calling a __host__ function("std::equal_to<float> ::operator () const") from a __global__ function("tensorflow::_NV_ANON_NAMESPACE::MaxPoolGradBackwardNoMaskNHWC< ::Eigen::half> ") is not allowed
/b/f/w/run/external/eigen_archive/Eigen/src/Core/arch/GPU/Half.h(197): error: identifier "std::equal_to<float> ::operator () const" is undefined in device code"
/b/f/w/run/external/eigen_archive/Eigen/src/Core/arch/GPU/Half.h(197): error: calling a __host__ function("std::equal_to<float> ::operator () const") from a __global__ function("tensorflow::_NV_ANON_NAMESPACE::MaxPoolGradBackwardNoMaskNCHW< ::Eigen::half> ") is not allowed
/b/f/w/run/external/eigen_archive/Eigen/src/Core/arch/GPU/Half.h(197): error: identifier "std::equal_to<float> ::operator () const" is undefined in device code
4 errors detected in the compilation of "/tmp/tmpxft_00000011_00000000-6_maxpooling_op_gpu.cu.cpp1.ii".
ERROR: /tmpfs/tensor_flow/tensorflow/core/kernels/BUILD:3753:1: output 'tensorflow/core/kernels/_objs/pooling_ops_gpu/maxpooling_op_gpu.cu.pic.o' was not created
ERROR: /tmpfs/tensor_flow/tensorflow/core/kernels/BUILD:3753:1: Couldn't build file tensorflow/core/kernels/_objs/pooling_ops_gpu/maxpooling_op_gpu.cu.pic.o: not all outputs were created or valid
The Packet16f, Packet8f and Packet8d types are too large to use with dynamically
sized matrices typically processed by the SliceVectorizedTraversal specialization of
the dense_assignment_loop. Using these types is likely to lead to little or no
vectorization. Significant slowdown in the multiplication of these small matrices can
be observed when building with AVX and AVX512 enabled.
This patch introduces a new dense_assignment_kernel that is used when
computing small products whose operands have dynamic dimensions. It ensures that the
PacketSize used is no larger than 4, thereby increasing the chance that vectorized
instructions will be used when computing the product.
I tested all 969 possible combinations of M, K, and N that are handled by the
dense_assignment_loop on x86 builds. Although a few combinations are slowed down
by this patch they are far outnumbered by the cases that are sped up, as the
following results demonstrate.
Disabling Packed8d on AVX512 builds:
Total Cases: 969
Better: 511
Worse: 85
Same: 373
Max Improvement: 169.00% (4 8 6)
Max Degradation: 36.50% (8 5 3)
Median Improvement: 35.46%
Median Degradation: 17.41%
Total FLOPs Improvement: 19.42%
Disabling Packet16f and Packed8f on AVX512 builds:
Total Cases: 969
Better: 658
Worse: 5
Same: 306
Max Improvement: 214.05% (8 6 5)
Max Degradation: 22.26% (16 2 1)
Median Improvement: 60.05%
Median Degradation: 13.32%
Total FLOPs Improvement: 59.58%
Disabling Packed8f on AVX builds:
Total Cases: 969
Better: 663
Worse: 96
Same: 210
Max Improvement: 155.29% (4 10 5)
Max Degradation: 35.12% (8 3 2)
Median Improvement: 34.28%
Median Degradation: 15.05%
Total FLOPs Improvement: 26.02%
