[PATCH] D45277: [CUDA] Add amdgpu sub archs

Yaxun Liu via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Apr 5 11:19:07 PDT 2018


yaxunl added inline comments.


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Comment at: lib/Basic/Targets.cpp:161
+    case CudaArch::GFX902:
+      return "320";
+    case CudaArch::UNKNOWN:
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tra wrote:
> Unless you're planning to guarantee 1:1 match to functionality provided by nvidia's sm_32, it would be prudent to use some other value for the macro so the source code has a way to tell these GPUs apart.
> 
> Another issue with this approach is that typical use pattern for __CUDA_ARCH__ is 
> `#if __CUDA_ARCH__ >= XXX`. I don't expect that we'll always be able to maintain order across GPU architectures among NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. Perhaps for HIP compilation it would make more sense to define __CUDA_ARCH__ as 1 (this should serve as a legacy indication of device-side compilation) and define __HIP_ARCH__ to indicate which AMD GPU we're compiling for without accidentally enabling something that was intended for NVIDIA's GPUs only.
I think let `__CUDA_ARCH__`==1 for amdgcn is reasonable and I can make that change.

On the other hand, I think it may be difficult to define `__HIP_ARCH__` which can sort mixed nvptx/amdgcn GPU's by capability. I do think a well defined `__HIP_ARCH__` would be useful for users. Just need some further discussion how to define it.

For now, if there are specific codes for nvptx, it can continue use `__CUDA_ARCH__`. If there are specific codes for amdgcn, it can check predefined amdgpu canonical names, e.g. `__gfx803__`, etc. 


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D45277





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