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   1 [[!tag standards]]
   2
   3 # Simple-V Vectorisation for the OpenPOWER ISA
   4
   5 **SV is in DRAFT STATUS**. SV has not yet been submitted to the OpenPOWER Foundation ISA WG for review.
   6
   7 <https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213>
   8
   9 Fundamental design principles:
  10
  11 * Simplicity of introduction and implementation on the existing OpenPOWER ISA
  12 * Effectively a hardware for-loop, pausing PC, issuing multiple scalar operations
  13 * Preserving the underlying scalar execution dependencies as if the for-loop had been expanded as actual scalar instructions
  14   (termed "preserving Program Order")
  15 * Augments ("tags") existing instructions, providing Vectorisation "context" rather than adding new ones.
  16 * Does not modify or deviate from the underlying scalar OpenPOWER ISA unless it provides significant performance or other advantage to do so in the Vector space (dropping XER.SO and OE=1 for example)
  17 * Designed for Supercomputing: avoids creating significant sequential
  18 dependency hazards, allowing high performance superscalar microarchitectures to be deployed.
  19
  20 Advantages of these design principles:
  21
  22 * It is therefore easy to create a first (and sometimes only) implementation as literally a for-loop in hardware, simulators, and compilers.
  23 * More complex HDL can be done by repeating existing scalar ALUs and pipelines as blocks.
  24 * As (mostly) a high-level "context" that does not (significantly) deviate from scalar OpenPOWER ISA and, in its purest form being "a for loop around scalar instructions", it is minimally-disruptive and consequently stands a reasonable chance of broad community adoption and acceptance
  25 * Completely wipes not just SIMD opcode proliferation off the
  26   map (SIMD is O(N^6) opcode proliferation)
  27   but off of Vectorisation ISAs as well.  No more separate Vector
  28   instructions.
  29
  30 Pages being developed and examples
  31
  32 * [[sv/overview]] explaining the basics.
  33 * [[sv/implementation]] implementation planning and coordination
  34 * [[sv/svp64]] contains the packet-format *only*
  35 * [[sv/setvl]] the Cray-style "Vector Length" instruction
  36 * [[sv/predication]] discussion on predication concepts
  37 * [[sv/cr_int_predication]] instructions needed for effective predication
  38 * [[sv/masked_vector_chaining]]
  39 * [[sv/discussion]]
  40 * [[sv/example_dep_matrices]]
  41 * [[sv/major_opcode_allocation]]
  42 * [[opcode_regs_deduped]]
  43 * [[sv/vector_swizzle]]
  44 * [[sv/register_type_tags]]
  45 * [[sv/mv.swizzle]]
  46 * [[sv/mv.x]]
  47 * [[sv/branches]] - SVP64 Conditional Branch behaviour: All/Some Vector CRs
  48 * [[sv/cr_ops]] - SVP64 Condition Register ops: Guidelines
  49  on Vectorisation of any v3.0B base operations which return
  50  or modify a Condition Register bit or field.
  51 * [[sv/fcvt]] FP Conversion (due to OpenPOWER Scalar FP32)
  52 * [[sv/fclass]] detect class of FP numbers
  53 * [[sv/int_fp_mv]] Move and convert GPR <-> FPR, needed for !VSX
  54 * [[sv/mv.vec]] move to and from vec2/3/4
  55 * [[sv/16_bit_compressed]] experimental
  56 * [[sv/toc_data_pointer]] experimental
  57 * [[sv/ldst]] Load and Store
  58 * [[sv/sprs]] SPRs
  59 * [[sv/bitmanip]]
  60 * [[sv/remap]] "Remapping" for Matrix Multiply and RGB "Structure Packing"
  61 * [[sv/propagation]] Context propagation including svp64, swizzle and remap
  62 * [[sv/vector_ops]] Vector ops needed to make a "complete" Vector ISA
  63 * [[sv/av_opcodes]] scalar opcodes for Audio/Video
  64 * [[sv/byteswap]]
  65 * TODO: OpenPOWER [[openpower/transcendentals]]
  66
  67 Additional links:
  68
  69 * <https://www.sigarch.org/simd-instructions-considered-harmful/>
  70 * [[simple_v_extension]] old (deprecated) version
  71 * [[openpower/sv/llvm]]
  72
  73 ===
  74
  75 Required Background Reading:
  76 ============================
  77
  78 These are all, deep breath, basically... required reading, *as well as and in addition* to a full and comprehensive deep technical understanding of the Power ISA, in order to understand the depth and background on SVP64 as a 3D GPU and VPU Extension.
  79
  80 I am keenly aware that each of them is 300 to 1,000 pages (just like the Power ISA itself).
  81
  82 This is just how it is.
  83
  84 Given the sheer overwhelming size and scope of SVP64 we have gone to CONSIDERABLE LENGTHS to provide justification and rationalisation for adding the various sub-extensions to the Base Scalar Power ISA.
  85
  86 * Scalar bitmanipulation is justifiable for the exact same reasons the extensions are justifiable for other ISAs.  The additional justification for their inclusion where some instructions are already (sort-of) present in VSX is that VSX is not mandatory, and the complexity of implementation of VSX is too high a price to pay at the Embedded SFFS Compliancy Level.
  87
  88 * Scalar FP-to-INT conversions, likewise.  ARM has a javascript conversion instruction, Power ISA does not (and it costs a ridiculous 45 instructions to implement, including 6 branches!)
  89
  90 * Scalar Transcendentals (SIN, COS, ATAN2, LOG) are easily justifiable for High-Performance Compute workloads.
  91
  92 It also has to be pointed out that normally this work would be covered by multiple separate full-time Workgroups with multiple Members contributing their time and resources!
  93
  94 Overall the contributions that we are developing take the Power ISA out of the specialist highly-focussed market it is presently best known for, and expands it into areas with much wider general adoption and broader uses.
  95
  96
  97 ---
  98
  99 OpenCL specifications are linked here, these are relevant when we get to a 3D GPU / High Performance Compute ISA WG RFC:
 100 [[openpower/transcendentals]]
 101
 102 (Failure to add Transcendentals to a 3D GPU is directly equivalent to *willfully* designing a product that is 100% destined for commercial failure.)
 103
 104 I mention these because they will be encountered in every single commercial GPU ISA, but they're not part of the "Base" (core design) of a Vector Processor. Transcendentals can be added as a sub-RFC.
 105
 106 ---
 107
 108 Actual 3D GPU Architectures and ISAs:
 109 -------------------------------------
 110
 111 * Broadcom Videocore
 112   <https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv>
 113
 114 * Etnaviv
 115   <https://github.com/etnaviv/etna_viv/tree/master/doc>
 116
 117 * Nyuzi
 118   <http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/nyuziraster.pdf>
 119
 120 * MALI
 121   <https://github.com/cwabbott0/mali-isa-docs>
 122
 123 * AMD
 124   <https://developer.amd.com/wp-content/resources/RDNA_Shader_ISA.pdf>
 125   <https://developer.amd.com/wp-content/resources/Vega_Shader_ISA_28July2017.pdf>
 126
 127 * MIAOW which is *NOT* a 3D GPU, it is a processor which happens to implement a subset of the AMDGPU ISA (Southern Islands), aka a "GPGPU"
 128   <https://miaowgpu.org/>
 129
 130
 131 Actual Vector Processor Architectures and ISAs:
 132 -----------------------------------------------
 133
 134 * NEC SX Aurora
 135   <https://www.hpc.nec/documents/guide/pdfs/Aurora_ISA_guide.pdf>
 136
 137 * Cray ISA
 138   <http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/cray/CRAY_Y-MP/HR-04001-0C_Cray_Y-MP_Computer_Systems_Functional_Description_Jun90.pdf>
 139
 140 * RISC-V RVV
 141   <https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec>
 142
 143 * MRISC32 ISA Manual (under active development)
 144   <https://github.com/mrisc32/mrisc32/tree/master/isa-manual>
 145
 146 * Mitch Alsup's MyISA 66000 Vector Processor ISA Manual is available from Mitch on direct contact with him.  It is a different approach from the others, which may be termed "Cray-Style Horizontal-First" Vectorisation.  66000 is a *Vertical-First* Vector ISA.
 147
 148 The term Horizontal or Vertical alludes to the Matrix "Row-First" or "Column-First" technique, where:
 149
 150 * Horizontal-First processes all elements in a Vector before moving on to the next instruction
 151 * Vertical-First processes *ONE* element per instruction, and requires loop constructs to explicitly step to the next element.
 152
 153 Vector-type Support by Architecture
 154 [[!table  data="""
 155 Architecture | Horizontal | Vertical
 156 MyISA 66000  |            | X
 157 Cray         | X          |
 158 SX Aurora    | X          |
 159 RVV          | X          |
 160 SVP64        | X          | X
 161 """]]
 162
 163 ===
 164
 165 Obligatory Dilbert:
 166
 167 <img src="https://assets.amuniversal.com/7fada35026ca01393d3d005056a9545d" width="600" />
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