[llvm] [AMDGPU][docs] define cluster scope and multicast loads (gfx1250) (PR #225310)
Sameer Sahasrabuddhe via llvm-commits
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Sun Oct 4 23:20:13 PDT 2026
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@@ -99,16 +99,59 @@ void @llvm.amdgcn.{global|cluster}.load.async.to.lds.b<N>(
ptr addrspace(3) %lds_base, ; LDS base pointer (per-lane)
i32 immarg %offset, ; offset (immediate) applied to both global and LDS address
i32 immarg %cpol, ; cache policy (immediate)
- [i32 %m0]) ; workgroup broadcast mask, cluster variants only (in M0)
+ [i32 %mask]) ; workgroup multicast mask, cluster variants only (wave-uniform, in M0)
```
The bit-size encoded in the name can be 8, 32, 64 or 128.
Loads data from global memory to LDS. The `%offset` is applied to both the
global and LDS addresses.
-The `cluster` variants add a `%m0` argument for workgroup broadcast. The
-broadcast mask selects which workgroups within a cluster participate in the load.
+(amdgpu-cluster-multicast-dma)=
+
+**Cluster Multicast Loads**
+
+The `cluster` variants let several workgroups in a {ref}`workgroup cluster
+<amdgpu-clusters>` share a single fetch from global memory when they are all
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ssahasra wrote:
I was in two minds about that one ... a load is a complete transfer from the source to the destination. I was using "fetch" to indicate an action within the implementation that is part of the actual multicast _load_. And "access" in the memory model is either a complete load or a store.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/225310
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