Typically processor architectures do not include an L3 cache, which means that
Nc, the parameter of the micro-kernel, is, for all practical purposes,
redundant ([1]). However, its small values can cause the redundant packing of
the same elements of the matrix A, the first operand of the matrix
multiplication. At the same time, big values of the parameter Nc can cause
segmentation faults in case the available stack is exceeded.
This patch adds an option to specify the parameter Nc as a multiple of
the parameter of the micro-kernel Nr.
In case of Intel Core i7-3820 SandyBridge and the following options,
clang -O3 gemm.c -I utilities/ utilities/polybench.c -DPOLYBENCH_TIME
-march=native -mllvm -polly -mllvm -polly-pattern-matching-based-opts=true
-DPOLYBENCH_USE_SCALAR_LB -mllvm -polly-target-cache-level-associativity=8,8
-mllvm -polly-target-cache-level-sizes=32768,262144 -mllvm
-polly-target-latency-vector-fma=8
it helps to improve the performance from 11.303 GFlops/sec (39,247% of
theoretical peak) to 17.896 GFlops/sec (62,14% of theoretical peak).
Refs.:
[1] - http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/pubs/TOMS-BLIS-Analytical.pdf
Reviewed-by: Tobias Grosser <tobias@grosser.es>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28019
llvm-svn: 290256
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