[petsc-dev] AVX kernels, old gcc, still broken

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 01:40, Balay, Satish <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I'm curious why this issue comes up for you. The code was unrelated to
> --with-avx512-kernels=0 option.
>
> Its relying on __AVX512F__and PETSC_HAVE_IMMINTRIN_H flags. And
> assumes immintrin.h has a definition for _mm512_reduce_add_pd()
>
> Is the flag __AVX512F__ always set on your machine by gcc?
>
> And does this change based on the hardware? I just tried this build
> [same os/compiler] on "Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6130 CPU @ 2.10GHz" - and
> can't reproduce the issue.
>
> I do see _mm512_reduce_add_pd is missing from immintrin.h - but the
> flag __AVX512F__ is not set for me.
>
>
Of course it is not set, you are just invoking the preprocessor. Try this
way:

$ cat xyz.c
#if defined __AVX512F__
#error "avx512f flag set"
#endif

$ gcc -march=native -c xyz.c
xyz.c:2:2: error: #error "avx512f flag set"
 #error "avx512f flag set"

I forgot to mention my XXXOPTFLAGS, full reconfigure script below.
Do we have some Ubuntu 16 builder using system GCC?
 Maybe we should use `-march=native -O3 -g3` in one of these builders?

$ cat arch-gnu-opt/lib/petsc/conf/reconfigure-arch-gnu-opt.py
#!/usr/bin/python
if __name__ == '__main__':
  import sys
  import os
  sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('config'))
  import configure
  configure_options = [
    '--COPTFLAGS=-march=native -mtune=native -O3',
    '--CXXOPTFLAGS=-march=native -mtune=native -O3',
    '--FOPTFLAGS=-march=native -mtune=native -O3',
    '--download-metis=1',
    '--download-p4est=1',
    '--download-parmetis=1',
    '--with-avx512-kernels=0',
    '--with-debugging=0',
    '--with-fortran-bindings=0',
    '--with-zlib=1',
    'CC=mpicc',
    'CXX=mpicxx',
    'FC=mpifort',
    'PETSC_ARCH=arch-gnu-opt',
  ]
  configure.petsc_configure(configure_options)


-- 
Lisandro Dalcin
============
Research Scientist
Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC)
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/
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