Cross operation barriers are taken care of by the Membar pass.
Explicit barriers are only required if there's any synchronization
necessary within each operation.
## 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.
1. Rewrite code generation of insert_slice_async.
2. Correct the wrong index passed to extract_slice in pipeline.
3. Add a prologue in pipeline to wait for dangling cp.asyncs.
4. Move scf to cf conversion inside TritonGPUToLLVM because we need to
perform membar before scf to cf. It shouldn't be a technical limitation
and could be improved by a more general membar analysis.
5. Use an attribute to memoize the shared memory size and support
dynamic shared memory.
6. Prevent the combine pass to reorder insert_slice and extract_slice
across async_wait
Co-authored-by: Superjomn <yanchunwei@outlook.com>
This code in this branch assumes the `src` operand in
`insert_slice_async` always aliases the result, which shouldn't hold for
generally cases but is just a workaround to make the pipeline pass work.
I'm also working on the complete analysis in another
[branch](https://github.com/openai/triton-mlir/tree/keren/analyze-slice).
The purpose of this PR is analyzing shared memory aliases so that we can
fix memory allocation bugs and save memory allocations in triton code
involving complex control flows.
Changes to memory bar and allocation are on the way.
Co-authored-by: Philippe Tillet <phil@openai.com>
