[clang] Adding Separate OpenMP Offloading Backend to `libcxx/include/__algorithm/pstl_backends` (PR #66968)

Louis Dionne via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Oct 30 13:27:52 PDT 2023


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@@ -466,6 +466,114 @@ Unpoisoning may not be an option, if (for example) you are not maintaining the a
 * You are using allocator, which does not call destructor during deallocation.
 * You are aware that memory allocated with an allocator may be accessed, even when unused by container.
 
+Offloading C++ Parallel Algorithms to GPUs
+------------------------------------------
+
+Experimental support for GPU offloading has been added to ``libc++``. The
+implementation uses OpenMP target offloading to leverage GPU compute resources.
+The OpenMP PSTL backend can target both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.
+However, the implementation only supports contiguous iterators, such as 
+iterators for ``std::vector`` or ``std::array``.
+To enable the OpenMP offloading backend it must be selected with
+``LIBCXX_PSTL_BACKEND=openmp`` when installing ``libc++``. Further, when
+compiling a program, the user must specify the command line options
+``-fopenmp -fexperimental-library -stdlib=libc++``. To install LLVM with OpenMP
+offloading enabled, please read
+`the LLVM OpenMP FAQ. <https://openmp.llvm.org/SupportAndFAQ.html>`_ 
+You may also want to to visit
+`the OpenMP offloading command-line argument reference. <https://openmp.llvm.org/CommandLineArgumentReference.html#offload-command-line-arguments>`_ 
+
+Example
+~~~~~~~
+
+The following is an example of offloading vector addition to a GPU using our
+standard library extension.
+
+.. code-block:: cpp
+
+  #include <algorithm>
+  #include <execution>
+
+  template<typename T1, typename T2, typename T3>
+  void axpy(const T1 a,std::vector<T2>& x, std::vector<T3>& y)
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ldionne wrote:

```suggestion
  void axpy(const T1 a, std::vector<T2>& x, std::vector<T3>& y)
```

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/66968


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