[petsc-dev] KNL MatMult performance and unrolling.

[Jeff Hammond]

If there is a minimal performance oriented test of this function, I can ask
the compiler team to study it w.r.t. unrolling heuristics.

Jeff

On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>
>    Mr Hong Zhang has found that removing the manual unrolling from
> MatMult_SeqAIJ_Inode() (at least with inode size 2) results in a good bump
> in performance on KNL and pointed me to the Intel gospel
> https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/avoid-manual-loop-unrolling
> which we've always ignored in the past. It would be good try the unrolled
> and non-unrolled also on Xeon.
>
>    We've never done a good job of managing our unrolling, where, how and
> when we do it and macros for unrolling such as PetscSparseDensePlusDot.
> Intel would say just throw it all away.
>
>    Barry
>
>
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>

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Jeff Hammond
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