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authorGravatar David Tellenbach <david.tellenbach@me.com>2020-05-07 17:25:42 +0200
committerGravatar David Tellenbach <david.tellenbach@me.com>2020-05-08 12:54:36 +0200
commit5c4e19fbe7ea19d9d8b51243515f972237a49267 (patch)
tree6d6c9e65e091bfa8ac3c16694034747046c863ee /doc
parent225ab040e078b923ece75b7a49ae0cef980c226f (diff)
Possibility to specify user-defined default cache sizes for GEBP kernel
Some architectures have no convinient way to determine cache sizes at runtime. Eigen's GEBP kernel falls back to default cache values in this case which might not be correct in all situations. This patch introduces three preprocessor directives `EIGEN_DEFAULT_L1_CACHE_SIZE` `EIGEN_DEFAULT_L2_CACHE_SIZE` `EIGEN_DEFAULT_L3_CACHE_SIZE` to give users the possibility to set these default values explicitly.
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diff --git a/doc/PreprocessorDirectives.dox b/doc/PreprocessorDirectives.dox
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@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ run time. However, these assertions do cost time and can thus be turned off.
Let us emphasize that \c EIGEN_MAX_*_ALIGN_BYTES define only a diserable upper bound. In practice data is aligned to largest power-of-two common divisor of \c EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES and the size of the data, such that memory is not wasted.
- \b \c EIGEN_DONT_PARALLELIZE - if defined, this disables multi-threading. This is only relevant if you enabled OpenMP.
See \ref TopicMultiThreading for details.
- - \b EIGEN_DONT_VECTORIZE - disables explicit vectorization when defined. Not defined by default, unless
+ - \b \c EIGEN_DONT_VECTORIZE - disables explicit vectorization when defined. Not defined by default, unless
alignment is disabled by %Eigen's platform test or the user defining \c EIGEN_DONT_ALIGN.
- \b \c EIGEN_UNALIGNED_VECTORIZE - disables/enables vectorization with unaligned stores. Default is 1 (enabled).
If set to 0 (disabled), then expression for which the destination cannot be aligned are not vectorized (e.g., unaligned
@@ -127,9 +127,11 @@ run time. However, these assertions do cost time and can thus be turned off.
By default it is defined to \c __forceinline for MSVC and ICC, and to \c inline for other compilers. A tipical usage is to
define it to \c inline for MSVC users wanting faster compilation times, at the risk of performance degradations in some rare
cases for which MSVC inliner fails to do a good job.
+ - \b \c EIGEN_DEFAULT_L1_CACHE_SIZE - Sets the default L1 cache size that is used in Eigen's GEBP kernel when the correct cache size cannot be determined at runtime.
+ - \b \c EIGEN_DEFAULT_L2_CACHE_SIZE - Sets the default L2 cache size that is used in Eigen's GEBP kernel when the correct cache size cannot be determined at runtime.
+ - \b \c EIGEN_DEFAULT_L3_CACHE_SIZE - Sets the default L3 cache size that is used in Eigen's GEBP kernel when the correct cache size cannot be determined at runtime.
-
- - \c EIGEN_DONT_ALIGN - Deprecated, it is a synonym for \c EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES=0. It disables alignment completely. %Eigen will not try to align its objects and does not expect that any objects passed to it are aligned. This will turn off vectorization if \b EIGEN_UNALIGNED_VECTORIZE=1. Not defined by default.
+ - \c EIGEN_DONT_ALIGN - Deprecated, it is a synonym for \c EIGEN_MAX_ALIGN_BYTES=0. It disables alignment completely. %Eigen will not try to align its objects and does not expect that any objects passed to it are aligned. This will turn off vectorization if \b \c EIGEN_UNALIGNED_VECTORIZE=1. Not defined by default.
- \c EIGEN_DONT_ALIGN_STATICALLY - Deprecated, it is a synonym for \c EIGEN_MAX_STATIC_ALIGN_BYTES=0. It disables alignment of arrays on the stack. Not defined by default, unless \c EIGEN_DONT_ALIGN is defined.