This PR adds several optimization capabilities in the compiler backend:
- Now using inline PTX for `tl.store`, making it possible to use things like evict_last
- For A100, mma layout can be directly converted to shared memory
- For A100, an additional "transpose" argument in `dot` allows tensors to be loaded once and used both row- and col- major.
- Fixed liveness analysis; this was broken.
- Now can load/store directly mma layout without converting. Useful for when tl.dot accumulator is initialized with DRAM data inside of an inner loop.
- `tl.dot` can now take LHS inputs in registers when it comes from a previous `tl.dot` instruction. Useful for e.g. fused attention.
This is a more stable commit that produce bitwise identical code to earlier
versions. Using commits after this one may lead to slightly different numerics
- Fix some whitespace.
- Make an undeclared dependency on `pytest` explicit.
- Fix deprecated `description-file` use.
- `#ifdef` out a deprecated `PyEval_InitThreads` call.
- Use a slightly different numpy invocation in `test_random.py` to quiet down overflow warnings in tests.
- Fix a deprecated cast in `test_core.py`.
- Suppress a warning about `visit_Constant` in Python 3.9+; we can't migrate yet because it'd break Python 3.6 and 3.7.
- Use chained exceptions for `CompilationError` rather than rolling our own; it makes the error messages nicer.
- Add a `__str__` for `tl.dtype` to make debugging kernels easier; it lets you `print` a dtype to see what type was inferred.
- Fix a few bad escapes.
This PR adds a BF16 data-type, along with FP32 <-> BF16 conversion instructions in the LLVM codegen. Other kinds of ops on bfloat16 are not yet supported.
Improved codegen for the Ampere GPUs.
* Make the layout pass recognize the multistage pipelined pattern.
* Now the pipeline pass can automate the multistage pipelining transformation.
* Remove extra barriers (from the prefetch pass & WAR) on Ampere.
* Update the code generator (generator.cc) to make Triton generate n-buffered shared memory loads/stores.
* Now using unordered instead of ordered float (fixes NaN issues)
* Bool -> int32 now converts to 1 rather than -1
* Reduce extend arguments to 32-bits if possible
