From 88b02a8ed1a9df210a4b0859213f3394206df6a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:14:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/vector_ops.mdwn | 23 +++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/vector_ops.mdwn b/openpower/sv/vector_ops.mdwn index 0ec81e92b..57272d3eb 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/vector_ops.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/vector_ops.mdwn @@ -2,28 +2,27 @@ # SV Vector Operations. -* TODO merge old standards page [[simple_v_extension/vector_ops/]] -* bugreport - -The core OpenPOWER ISA was designed as scalar: SV provides a level of abstraction to add variable-length element-independent parallelism. However, certain classes of instructions only make sense in a Vector context: AVX512 conflictd for example. This section includes such examples. Many of them are from the RISC-V Vector ISA (with thanks to the efforts of RVV's contributors) - -Notes: - -* Some of these actually could be added to a scalar ISA as bitmanipulation instructions. These are separated out into their own section. -* Instructions suited to 3D GPU workloads (dotproduct, crossproduct, normalise) are out of scope: this document is for more general-purpose instructions that underpin and are critical to general-purpose Vector workloads (including GPU and VPU) -* Instructions related to the adaptation of CRs for use as predicate masks are covered separately, by crweird operations. See [[sv/cr_int_predication]]. - Links: +* TODO merge old standards page [[simple_v_extension/vector_ops/]] * * conflictd example * * * specialist vector ops - out of scope for this document + out of scope for this document [[openpower/sv/3d_vector_ops]] * [[simple_v_extension/specification/bitmanip]] previous version, contains pseudocode for sof, sif, sbf + +The core OpenPOWER ISA was designed as scalar: SV provides a level of abstraction to add variable-length element-independent parallelism. However, certain classes of instructions only make sense in a Vector context: AVX512 conflictd for example. This section includes such examples. Many of them are from the RISC-V Vector ISA (with thanks to the efforts of RVV's contributors) + +Notes: + +* Some of these actually could be added to a scalar ISA as bitmanipulation instructions. These are separated out into their own section. +* Instructions suited to 3D GPU workloads (dotproduct, crossproduct, normalise) are out of scope: this document is for more general-purpose instructions that underpin and are critical to general-purpose Vector workloads (including GPU and VPU) +* Instructions related to the adaptation of CRs for use as predicate masks are covered separately, by crweird operations. See [[sv/cr_int_predication]]. + # Vector Both of these instructions may be synthesised from SVP64 Vector -- 2.30.2