[cfe-dev] [RFC][OpenCL] Pass alignment of arguments in local addr space for device-side enqueued kernel to __enqueue_kernel functions

[Liu, Yaxun (Sam) via cfe-dev]

Hi,

OpenCL spec requires that a pointer should be aligned to at least the pointee type. Therefore, if a device-side enqueued kernel has a local int* argument, it should be aligned to 4 bytes.

Since these buffers in local addr space are allocated by __enqueue_kernel, it needs to know the alignment of these buffers, not just their sizes.

Although such information is not passed to the original OpenCL builtin function enqueue_kernel, it can be obtained by checking the prototype of the block invoke function at compile time.

I would like to create a patch to pass this information to  __enqueue_kernel. Otherwise, __enqueue_kernel has to either allocate unaligned local buffer, which degrades performance, or allocates local buffer with extra alignment therefore wasted memory space.

Any comments?

Thanks.

Sam
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