<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Guoping Long <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:longguoping@gmail.com">longguoping@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
At least for me, I believe this is a very interesting project. I may consider contribute later on when it actually moves on.<div>To really optimizing OpenCL codes at backend is too challenging, because this relies on very much hardware specific information, which may not be disclosed.</div>
<div>So I fully agree to transform the code back to source when it is optimized. But why at the IR level, not the AST? Isn't transforming on AST much easier and reasonable?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you're interested in NVidia hardware, the OpenCL->PTX workflow is mostly implemented in LLVM ToT (will be part of LLVM 3.0). The main missing part at the moment is OpenCL work-item function calls, which have to be implemented in terms of PTX intrinsics. It's not difficult, but I haven't written a library to do that yet. Once you have PTX, you can use the CUDA Driver API to load and execute the kernel.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You can play around with it by using the following Clang options:</div><div><br></div><div>$ clang -ccc-host-triple ptx32 -S <kernel>.cl</div><div><br></div><div>You can define your work-item functions as something like the following:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">__attribute__((always_inline))</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">int get_group_id(int dim) {</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> if (dim == 0)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_ctaid_x();</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> else if (dim == 1)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_ctaid_y();</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> else</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_ctaid_z();</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">}</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">__attribute__((always_inline))</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">int get_global_id(int dim) {</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> if (dim == 0)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_ctaid_x()*__builtin_ptx_read_ntid_x()+__builtin_ptx_read_tid_x();</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> else if (dim == 1)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_ctaid_y()*__builtin_ptx_read_ntid_y()+__builtin_ptx_read_tid_y();</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> else</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_ctaid_z()*__builtin_ptx_read_ntid_z()+__builtin_ptx_read_tid_z();</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">}</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">__attribute__((always_inline))</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">int get_local_id(int dim) {</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> if (dim == 0)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_tid_x();</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> else if (dim == 1)</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_tid_y();</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> else</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_tid_z();</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">}</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">__attribute__((always_inline))</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">int get_global_size(int dim) {</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> if (dim == 0)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_nctaid_x()*__builtin_ptx_read_ntid_x();</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> else if (dim == 1)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_nctaid_y()*__builtin_ptx_read_ntid_y();</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> else</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> return __builtin_ptx_read_nctaid_z()*__builtin_ptx_read_ntid_z();</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">}</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">#define barrier(kind) __builtin_ptx_bar_sync(kind)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">#define CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE 0</font></div></div><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><br></div><div>------</div><div>Guoping<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/5 Alberto Magni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alberto.magni86@gmail.com" target="_blank">alberto.magni86@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi everybody,<br><br>for a research project I would like to use LLVM to optimize <br>OpenCL programs for GPUs.<br><br>Due to the lack of open-source back-ends and runtimes for<br>GPUs my idea is the following:<br>1) compile OpenCL C into LLVM-IR (for what I read on the ML<br>
full support is close, at least foreseeable),<br>2) apply LLVM transformations to the bitcode,<br>3) generate the OpenCL C code from the optimized bitcode,<br>4) use the official (Nvidia, AMD, Intel, ....) OpenCL compilers <br>
and runtimes for the actual execution of the optimized code<br><br>I know that the C backend is buggy and it is no more <br>supported but it still works with simple C programs.<br>Remeber that OpenCL programs are usually quite simple<br>
(no function pointers, etc...)<br><br>The main features to be added to the backend are:<br>1) the "__kernel" keyword,<br>2) the four address spaces keywords<br>3) vector data types<br>4) the half keyword<br><br>
My idea is to extensively verify the functionality the C-backend for <br>C programs (similar to OpenCL-C ones) and possibly add the listed features.<br><br>What do you think of this ? Is it feasible ?<br><br>Thank you,<br>
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<br>Alberto<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><br><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Justin Holewinski</div><br>