1. Improve pipline's comment
2. Decompose insert_slice_async when load vector size is not supported
3. Add a test that could fail our gemm code
Copy my comments here:
There's a knob that may cause performance regression when decomposition
has been performed. We should remove this knob once we have thorough
analysis on async wait. Currently, we decompose `insert_slice_async`
into `load` and `insert_slice` without knowing which `async_wait` is
responsible for the `insert_slice_async`. To guarantee correctness, we
blindly set the `async_wait` to wait for all async ops if any `insert_slice_async` has been decomposed.
There are two options to improve this:
1. We can perform a dataflow analysis to find the `async_wait` that is
responsible for the `insert_slice_async` in the backend.
4. We can modify the pipeline to perform the decomposition before the
`async_wait` is inserted. However, it is also risky because we don't
know the correct vectorized shape yet in the pipeline pass. Making the
pipeline pass aware of the vectorization could introduce additional
dependencies on the AxisInfoAnalysis and the Coalesce analysis.
A (potential) problem by directly adopting `tensor.extract_slice`.
Long story short, `tensor.extract_slice` is not aware of swizzling.
Consider the following shared memory tensor and its first three slices,
where each slice includes two tile (the loading unit of LDGSTS) of
elements. Currently, the tiles haven't been swizzled yet, so slicing
seems to work.
<img width="1219" alt="image"
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2306281/201833023-a7950705-2d50-4c0a-8527-7505261c3a3c.png">
However, now consider the following figure, which is the layout after
applying swizzling on the first figure.
<img width="1244" alt="image"
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2306281/201834824-7daae360-f5bc-4e6b-a921-20be3f294b78.png">
Note that on phase 2, all tiles have been swizzled out of their
originally slices. This implies that if we use the tile index after
slicing, we can no longer locate the correct tiles. For example, T3 was
in slice 1 but got swapped to slice 0 after swizzling.
Here's a more detailed explanation. In the current `triton-mlir` branch,
we only compute the relative offset of each tile. So T3's index in Slice
1 is *1*, and it will be swizzled using *1* and *phase id*. Whereas the
correct index of T3 should be *3*, which is the relative offset to the
beginning of the shared memory tensor being swizzled, and T3 should be
swizzled using *3* and *phase id*.
This PR proposes a hacky solution for this problem. We restore the
"correct" offset of each tile by **assuming that slicing on a specific
dim only happens at most once on the output of insert_slice_async**. I
admit it's risky and fragile.
The other possible solution is adopting cutlass' swizzling logic that
limits the indices being swizzled in a "bounding box" that matches the
mma instruction executes. For example, in the following tensor layout,
each 4x4 submatrix is a minimum swizzling unit, and the entire tensor
represents the tensor layout of operand A in `mma.16816`.
<img width="565" alt="image"
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2306281/201836879-4ca7824b-530c-4a06-a3d5-1e74a2de1b42.png">
Co-authored-by: Phil Tillet <phil@openai.com>
## Features
- Allow taking a block of tensor slice, as long as each dimension is
contiguous (unit stride).
- Fix some problems in `insert_slice_async`'s semantic.
- More general verification for ops that return shared layout encoding.
## Known Limitations
- `insert_slice_async` still uses the old semantic. May submit another
PR later to support similar semantic like `tensor.extract_slice`.
- No encoding verification for `tensor.extract_slice`.
- 3d tensor ops are broken.
- Strided accesses are not allowed.
- May cause a little performance slowdown since we are passing strides
as values but not constants (e.g., int).
It would be difficult to pass strides as attributes when we have control
flows. A block argument is possible to accept tensors with different
strides.
This adds a `DialectInlinerInterface` to the Triton dialect. This, along
with a few other minor semantic changes, fixes our tests on call
instructions. Also added the option to provide use an "LLVM_SYSPATH"
environment variable to link against locally build of LLVM; this was
useful for debugging this issue.
