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[SYCL] Extension spec for queue index (#7520)
Add a proposed extension specification that allows a queue to be tied to a "queue index".
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= sycl_ext_intel_queue_index | ||
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:doctype: book | ||
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:encoding: utf-8 | ||
:lang: en | ||
:dpcpp: pass:[DPC++] | ||
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// docbook uses c++ and html5 uses cpp. | ||
:language: {basebackend@docbook:c++:cpp} | ||
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== Notice | ||
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[%hardbreaks] | ||
Copyright (C) 2022-2022 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. | ||
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Khronos(R) is a registered trademark and SYCL(TM) and SPIR(TM) are trademarks | ||
of The Khronos Group Inc. OpenCL(TM) is a trademark of Apple Inc. used by | ||
permission by Khronos. | ||
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== Contact | ||
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To report problems with this extension, please open a new issue at: | ||
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https://github.com/intel/llvm/issues | ||
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== Dependencies | ||
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This extension is written against the SYCL 2020 revision 6 specification. All | ||
references below to the "core SYCL specification" or to section numbers in the | ||
SYCL specification refer to that revision. | ||
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== Status | ||
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This is a proposed extension specification, intended to gather community | ||
feedback. Interfaces defined in this specification may not be implemented yet | ||
or may be in a preliminary state. The specification itself may also change in | ||
incompatible ways before it is finalized. *Shipping software products should | ||
not rely on APIs defined in this specification.* | ||
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== Overview | ||
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Backends such as Level Zero and OpenCL expose an "index" to a device's work | ||
submission queue, which allows the application to fine tune the way work is | ||
submitted to a device. This extension exposes that same concept to SYCL | ||
applications. | ||
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Most SYCL applications should not need to use this extension because the SYCL | ||
implementation automatically selects an efficient way to submit work to a | ||
device, including automatic selection of a queue index when necessary. | ||
Therefore, this extension is aimed at advanced users who understand the device | ||
hardware and think they can outperform the default implementation by specifying | ||
an explicit queue index. | ||
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Note that this extension can be supported on any backend, even if the backend | ||
has no notion of a "queue index". Backends that have no native support for a | ||
queue index can report that a device has only a single available queue index. | ||
Applications can then only request one possible queue index, and the backend | ||
can treat this as the default behavior (i.e. the backend can ignore the index). | ||
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== Specification | ||
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=== Feature test macro | ||
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This extension provides a feature-test macro as described in the core SYCL | ||
specification. An implementation supporting this extension must predefine the | ||
macro `SYCL_EXT_INTEL_QUEUE_INDEX` to one of the values defined in the table | ||
below. Applications can test for the existence of this macro to determine if | ||
the implementation supports this feature, or applications can test the macro's | ||
value to determine which of the extension's features the implementation | ||
supports. | ||
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[%header,cols="1,5"] | ||
|=== | ||
|Value | ||
|Description | ||
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|1 | ||
|Initial version of this extension. | ||
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=== New device information descriptor | ||
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This extension adds the following new device information descriptor which | ||
allows the application to query the number of available queue indices for the | ||
device. | ||
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``` | ||
namespace sycl::ext::intel::info::device { | ||
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struct max_compute_queue_indices; | ||
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} // namespace sycl::ext::intel::info::device | ||
``` | ||
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The return type for this information descriptor is `int`, and the value is a | ||
positive integer telling the number queue indices that are available for the | ||
device. These indices are numbered sequentially starting at `0`. | ||
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=== New queue property | ||
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This extension adds the following new queue property which can be specified to | ||
the queue constructor via the `property_list` parameter. | ||
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``` | ||
namespace sycl::ext::intel::property::queue { | ||
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class compute_index { | ||
public: | ||
compute_index(int idx); | ||
int get_index(); | ||
}; | ||
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} // namespace sycl::ext::intel::property::queue | ||
``` | ||
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The `compute_index` property is a hint to the implementation which can affect | ||
work submission concurrency. When two queues for the same device have | ||
different queue indices, there is a greater chance that commands submitted to | ||
the two queues will be concurrently submitted to the device. | ||
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It is an error to specify a queue index that is out of range for the queue's | ||
device. The `queue` constructor throws an `exception` with `errc::invalid` if | ||
the index is less than `0` or if the index is greater than or equal to the | ||
value returned by `max_compute_queue_indices` for the queue's device. | ||
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The constructor and member functions of the `compute_index` property have the | ||
following semantics. | ||
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|Function | ||
|Description | ||
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|`compute_index(int idx)` | ||
|Constructs a property with the given queue index. | ||
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|`int get_index()` | ||
|Returns the queue index associated with the property. | ||
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== Example usage | ||
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The following code snippet shows how to create a SYCL queue using a specific | ||
queue index. | ||
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``` | ||
#include <sycl/sycl.hpp> | ||
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using sycl; | ||
using sycl::ext::intel; | ||
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void foo(device d) { | ||
int max_index = d.get_info<info::device::max_compute_queue_indices>(); | ||
int index = /* choose value between 0 and max_index-1 */; | ||
queue q{d, property::queue::compute_index{index}}; | ||
} | ||
``` | ||
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== Behavior on Intel GPU devices | ||
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:multi-CCS: https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/blob/master/level_zero/doc/experimental_extensions/MULTI_CCS_MODES.md | ||
:sycl_ext_intel_cslice: https://github.com/intel/llvm/pull/7513 | ||
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This non-normative section describes the behavior of the `compute_index` | ||
property for some specific Intel GPU devices when using {dpcpp}. These details | ||
are not part of the extension specification, and this behavior may not apply to | ||
other devices. | ||
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On many Intel devices, there is just one available queue index, and there is | ||
therefore no advantage to using the `compute_index` property. However, this | ||
property can sometimes be useful when running on Data Center GPU Flex series | ||
devices (aka ATS-M) or Data Center GPU Max series devices (aka PVC). | ||
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Some models of ATS-M support multiple queue indices with the semantics | ||
described in the sections above. When a single process submits kernels to | ||
different queue indices, there is a greater likelihood that the kernels will | ||
be submitted concurrently. | ||
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PVC also supports multiple queue indices on each tile, but these queue indices | ||
have a different semantic. In order to expose multiple queue indices on PVC, | ||
the device driver must be configured in {multi-CCS}[multi-CCS] mode. In this | ||
mode, the PVC root device still has just one queue index, however each "tile" | ||
has multiple queue indices. Therefore, the application must first create | ||
sub-devices to access each tile, and then the application can construct a queue | ||
on these sub-devices using the `compute_index` property. | ||
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The semantics of these PVC queue indices is different, though. On PVC, each | ||
queue index corresponds to a fixed subset of the execution units. Queues using | ||
different indices still have a greater likelihood of submitting kernels | ||
concurrently, but each kernel also runs on its own partition of the execution | ||
units. Therefore, the `compute_index` property is just an alternate way to | ||
run on a partition of the device, exactly the same as creating a "cslice" | ||
sub-device via the {sycl_ext_intel_cslice}[sycl_ext_intel_cslice] extension. | ||
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In both the ATS-M case and the PVC case, constructing a SYCL queue with | ||
`compute_index` causes the runtime to submit kernels exclusively to that index | ||
on the underlying Level Zero or OpenCL driver. Without this property, the | ||
runtime is free to distribute kernels across the available queue indices. |