Allow adjusting loop unroll aggressiveness#350
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niklebedenko wants to merge 10 commits intoRust-GPU:mainfrom
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Allow adjusting loop unroll aggressiveness#350niklebedenko wants to merge 10 commits intoRust-GPU:mainfrom
niklebedenko wants to merge 10 commits intoRust-GPU:mainfrom
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Looks great, thanks! But I think there is one unrelated change?
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In C++ CUDA, there's
#pragma unroll, which allows you to force a loop to be unrolled. Rust does not have such an equivalent, but LLVM will decide whether to unroll your loop based on heuristics. If you set the LLVM option-unroll-thresholdto a large number, you can make LLVM be more aggressive in its unrolling of loops.This gave my Rust code a 10x speed improvement for some kernels, due to being able to index arrays at compile time, removing the need for local memory, stack frames, and function calls.
N.B. there is the
unrollcrate but it only supports unrolling loops with integer bounds. The LLVM approach allows unrolling loops over iterators also.