# SV Overview
-**SV is in DRAFT STATUS**. SV has not yet been submitted to the OpenPOWER Foundation ISA WG for review.
+**SV is in DRAFT STATUS**. SV has not yet been submitted to the OpenPOWER
+Foundation ISA WG for review.
This document provides an overview and introduction as to why SV (a
-[[!wikipedia Cray]]-style Vector augmentation to [[!wikipedia OpenPOWER]]) exists, and how it works.
+[[!wikipedia Cray]]-style Vector augmentation to
+[[!wikipedia OpenPOWER]]) exists, and how it works.
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Links:
* This page: [http://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/overview](http://libre-soc.org/openpower/sv/overview)
-* [FOSDEM2021 SimpleV for OpenPOWER](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/the_libresoc_project_simple_v_vectorisation/)
+* [FOSDEM2021 SimpleV for Power ISA](https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/the_libresoc_project_simple_v_vectorisation/)
* FOSDEM2021 presentation <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS6tbfyb2VA>
* [[discussion]] and
[bugreport](https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556)
out-of-order execution, although it is strongly recommended to add
predication capability directly into SIMD backend units.
-In OpenPOWER ISA v3.0B pseudo-code form, an ADD operation, assuming both
+In Power ISA v3.0B pseudo-code form, an ADD operation, assuming both
source and destination have been "tagged" as Vectors, is simply:
for i = 0 to VL-1:
RISC-V RVV as of version 0.9 is over 188 instructions (more than the
rest of RV64G combined: 80 for RV64G and 27 for C). Over 95% of that
-functionality is added to OpenPOWER v3 0B, by SimpleV augmentation,
+functionality is added to Power v3.0B, by SimpleV augmentation,
with around 5 to 8 instructions.
-Even in OpenPOWER v3.0B, the Scalar Integer ISA is around 150
+Even in Power ISA v3.0B, the Scalar Integer ISA is around 150
instructions, with IEEE754 FP adding approximately 80 more. VSX, being
based on SIMD design principles, adds somewhere in the region of 600 more.
SimpleV again provides over 95% of VSX functionality, simply by augmenting
-the *Scalar* OpenPOWER ISA, and in the process providing features such
+the *Scalar* Power ISA, and in the process providing features such
as predication, which VSX is entirely missing.
AVX512, SVE2, VSX, RVV, all of these systems have to provide different
even provides a mini mask regfile, followed by explicit instructions
that handle operations on each of them *and map between all of them*.
SV simply not only uses the existing scalar regfiles (including CRs),
-but because operations exist within OpenPOWER to cover interactions
+but because operations exist within Power ISA to cover interactions
between the scalar regfiles (`mfcr`, `fcvt`) there is very little that
needs to be added.
* A completely new concept: "Twin Predication"
* vec2/3/4 "Subvectors" and Swizzling (standard fare for 3D)
-All of this is *without modifying the OpenPOWER v3.0B ISA*, except to add
+All of this is *without modifying the Power v3.0B ISA*, except to add
"wrapping context", similar to how v3.1B 64 Prefixes work.
# Adding Scalar / Vector
principle, which takes into account the fact that each CR may be bit-level
addressed by Condition Register operations.
-Readers familiar with OpenPOWER will know of Rc=1 operations that create
+Readers familiar with the Power ISA will know of Rc=1 operations that create
an associated post-result "test", placing this test into an implicit
Condition Register. The original researchers who created the POWER ISA
chose CR0 for Integer, and CR1 for Floating Point. These *also become
If all three registers are marked as Vector then the "traditional"
predicated Vector behaviour is provided. Yet, just as before, all other
options are still provided, right the way back to the pure-scalar case,
-as if this were a straight OpenPOWER v3.0B non-augmented instruction.
+as if this were a straight Power ISA v3.0B non-augmented instruction.
Single Predication therefore provides several modes traditionally seen
in Vector ISAs:
32 for integer, and FP16 and FP32 for IEEE754 (with BF16 to be added in
the future).
-This presents a particularly intriguing conundrum given that the OpenPOWER
+This presents a particularly intriguing conundrum given that the Power
Scalar ISA was never designed with for example 8 bit operations in mind,
let alone Vectors of 8 bit.
uint8_t b[0]; // array of type uint8_t
uint16_t s[0]; // array of LE ordered uint16_t
uint32_t i[0];
- uint64_t l[0]; // default OpenPOWER ISA uses this
+ uint64_t l[0]; // default Power ISA uses this
} reg_t;
reg_t int_regfile[128]; // SV extends to 128 regs
That decision was - arbitrarily - LE mode. Actually it wasn't arbitrary
at all: it was such hell to implement BE supported interpretations of CRs
and LD/ST in LibreSOC, based on a terse spec that provides insufficient
-clarity and assumes significant working knowledge of OpenPOWER, with
+clarity and assumes significant working knowledge of the Power ISA, with
arbitrary insertions of 7-index here and 3-bitindex there, the decision
to pick LE was extremely easy.
# CR predicate result analysis
-OpenPOWER has Condition Registers. These store an analysis of the result
+Power ISA has Condition Registers. These store an analysis of the result
of an operation to test it for being greater, less than or equal to zero.
What if a test could be done, similar to branch BO testing, which hooked
into the predication system?
and what's in it? Bearing in mind that this requires OPF review, the
current draft is at the [[sv/svp64]] page, and includes space for all the
different modes, the predicates, element width overrides, SUBVL and the
-register extensions, in 24 bits. This just about fits into an OpenPOWER
+register extensions, in 24 bits. This just about fits into a Power
v3.1B 64 bit Prefix by borrowing some of the Reserved Encoding space.
-The v3.1B suffix - containing as it does a 32 bit OpenPOWER instruction -
+The v3.1B suffix - containing as it does a 32 bi Power instruction -
aligns perfectly with SV.
Further reading is at the main [[SV|sv]] page.
# Conclusion
-Starting from a scalar ISA - OpenPOWER v3.0B - it was shown above that,
+Starting from a scalar ISA - Power v3.0B - it was shown above that,
with conceptual sub-loops, a Scalar ISA can be turned into a Vector one,
by embedding Scalar instructions - unmodified - into a Vector "context"
using "Prefixing". With careful thought, this technique reaches 90%
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