ternlogq tail: padded zmm vs zmm→ymm→xmm descent, measured (AVX-512) - #311
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mask_ternlog chunks over U64x8 (512 rows) and pads its 1..7-word tail into three zeroed 8-word arrays. The probe asks whether a VL descent (4 + 2 + 1 words, every lane live, all in vector registers) beats that, and whether greedy widest-first beats an all-xmm split. Crux, tail only (Xeon 2.10 GHz, v4, 3 runs): greedy wins every t >= 2 — 1.3-1.6x over all-xmm, 5-8x over padding. t=6: 4+2 at 2.26-2.74 ns vs 2+2+2 at 3.29-3.68 ns vs padded 17.0-18.3 ns. t=1: G and X are the same instructions (recorded as a tie, not a winner). End to end through the chunk loop: CallMask [u64;3] 18.1 -> 2.3 ns (7.7-8.0x); 1-7 words 5.9-8.0x; 31 words 2.5-3.3x; no-tail rows still 1.0-1.4x (loop shape, not tail), so tail-attributable is ~5-7x. asm: 33 zmm + 3 ymm + 6 xmm vpternlogq, zero GPR logic on lane data — a descent is not the scalar peel codegen-witness caps at SLICE_GPR_CAP=6. Gated cfg(avx512f) with a no-op main otherwise so every matrix row builds; [[example]] required-features = ["std"] for the --no-default-features CI row. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCfrD5y19cvFc4AoyydXYv
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds two AVX-512 benchmark examples, an ignored SGEMM tail benchmark, benchmark findings, and a formatting-only randomized-test seed update. ChangesTernary-logic probes
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The companion question to the tail descent: on a FULL-WIDTH mask with a sparse frontier, is a 64x2 re-apply (skip empty chunks at xmm width) faster than 64x8, and does either beat the per-bit gather? 1024 words, 65 536 rows, frontiers 0.01 %..100 % uniform and clustered, every arm gated bit-identical before timing. Answer: no. S2 (xmm skip) is 1.5-2.1x slower than the full zmm pass at every density; S4 never beats S8; chunk-skip at zmm is worth at most 1.24x on clustered frontiers and loses to the plain pass on uniform ones at >= 1 % (branch mispredicts). The pass is 150 ns for 32 KiB of traffic - bandwidth, not ALU - so narrower chunks are just more iterations. The gather walks every source word before it can know it is empty, so it costs >= 360 ns even at 7 live bits and ~0.8 ns/bit beyond; an index-list gather would be O(bits) but is the population serialization the mask doctrine forbids. The 64x2 rung is a TAIL instrument only. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCfrD5y19cvFc4AoyydXYv
Every power-of-two m has an MR=6 tail (128 = 21·6+2, 256 = 42·6+4, 512 =
85·6+2, 1024 = 170·6+4) and the shipped ukernel computes all six
accumulators on that tile regardless of mr_eff. A test-local R∈{2,4}
tail ukernel, dispatched on the tail tile only and bit-identical to the
shipped path, measures 0.987-1.018x across 126/128/130/132×256×256 and
128³..1024³ — noise. The padded rows hide behind packing and memory
traffic (~66 GFLOP/s at 1024³, half of one core's FMA peak). K-stop has
no waste; N-stop padding is on lanes the FMA unit processes anyway, so
no lane-width descent applies to GEMM. Ignored test, v4 only.
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| #[cfg(all(target_arch = "x86_64", target_feature = "avx512f"))] | ||
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When compiled natively on an AVX-512F-only processor such as Knights Landing, this condition selects the active main, which unconditionally calls functions containing AVX-512VL ymm/xmm ternary-logic instructions. A #[target_feature(enable = "avx512vl")] annotation only establishes a caller precondition; it does not verify the executing CPU, so this path can terminate with an illegal instruction. Include target_feature = "avx512vl" in both main cfgs or perform runtime detection before making these calls.
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Right — the attribute is a caller precondition, not a CPU check. Both cfg sites now require avx512f AND avx512vl (84be8d04); an F-only target takes the no-op main. Re-run confirms the v4 arm still reports avx512f=true.
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| #[cfg(all(target_arch = "x86_64", target_feature = "avx512f"))] | ||
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On a target that enables AVX-512F without the other v4 extensions, this cfg enters the probe even though s4/s2 execute AVX-512VL instructions and the _test_epi64_mask operations require AVX-512DQ. The unsafe calls in probe::main do not detect either feature, so a native build for an F-only AVX-512 CPU can crash instead of taking the advertised no-op path. Gate the active main/module on VL and DQ as well, or check those features at runtime.
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Fixed in 6986d487: both cfg sites now require avx512f + avx512vl + avx512dq (the S4/S2 rungs are VL encodings, _mm*_test_epi64_mask is DQ). The header line now prints avx512vl=true alongside avx512f so the arm is verifiable from the output.
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… not avx512f alone Codex P2 ×2 on #311: the ymm/xmm ternlog rungs are VL encodings and _mm*_test_epi64_mask is DQ; a #[target_feature] attribute is a caller precondition, not a CPU check, so an F-only native build (Knights Landing) could SIGILL instead of taking the advertised no-op path. Both cfg sites in each probe now require the features the bodies use. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCfrD5y19cvFc4AoyydXYv
…2vl + avx512dq The previous commit rewrote the doc line but its edit script's anchor count failed on this file and only the tail probe's cfgs changed — the record claimed both. Both cfg sites now carry vl + dq; re-run confirms avx512f=true avx512vl=true on the v4 arm. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCfrD5y19cvFc4AoyydXYv
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examples/ternlogq_tail_descent_probe.rs (1)
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unsafeblocks and call sites.The mandatory rule is violated. Add adjacent
// SAFETY:comments to the inner blocks intail_greedy,tail_all_xmm,tern_descend,s8,s4, ands2. Add comments before each unsafes8,s4, ands2call in the sparse probe's equivalence and timing paths.Each comment must state the enabled target features and the slice-length and loop/rung bounds that keep every load and store in range. Existing comments already cover the outer tail blocks and the direct
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In `@examples/ternlogq_tail_descent_probe.rs`:
- Line 256: Update the fallback println message in the probe to mention both
required CPU features, avx512f and avx512vl, while preserving the existing
platform and configuration guidance.
In `@src/backend/kernels_avx512.rs`:
- Around line 1058-1059: Complete the SAFETY comments for the unsafe calls to
sgemm_blocked and sgemm_blocked_desc in block_stop_probe and its closures,
including the timing-call unsafe blocks around the referenced calls. Preserve
all required unsafe boundaries and explain that the target-feature-enabled
AVX-512 calls are valid under the same preconditions as the surrounding blocked
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In `@examples/ternlogq_tail_descent_probe.rs`:
- Line 123: Document the unsafe operations in tail_greedy, tail_all_xmm,
tern_descend, s8, s4, and s2 with adjacent // SAFETY: comments covering enabled
target features and slice-length plus loop/rung bounds for all accesses. Also
add safety comments before each unsafe s8, s4, and s2 call in the sparse probe’s
equivalence and timing paths, while preserving the existing outer-tail and
direct tern_descend comments.
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…every gated feature CodeRabbit on #311: the inner unsafe blocks in tail_greedy / tail_all_xmm / tern_descend / s8 / s4 / s2 and the sparse probe's call sites lacked the // SAFETY: comment CLAUDE.md requires on every unsafe block; the block-stop probe's dispatch and timing calls carried a one-line stub. Each now states the feature precondition and the bound that keeps every access in-slice. The no-op mains name avx512vl (+dq) alongside avx512f. Doc/diagnostic only; no behaviour change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCfrD5y19cvFc4AoyydXYv
A default that names a tier the host is NOT means every AVX-512 measurement
needs an incantation — and a forgotten incantation does not fail, it grades
the wrong tier in silence.
Measured, and this is what prompted the flip: `scripts/codegen-witness.sh
avx512` run WITHOUT `CARGO_ARGS='--config .cargo/config-v4.toml'` built v3 and
reported three `FAIL: ... has no vpternlog on an AVX-512 build` on probe
symbols the change under test never touched. The assertion was right; the
build was the wrong one; nothing in the output said so. After the flip the
same bare command PASSES with 6 vpternlog.
`native` cannot mis-grade that way — rustc resolves the host CPUID, so the
default arm is always one this machine can run, and it cannot SIGILL by
construction.
What did NOT change: v3 is still the portable distribution baseline. It moved
out of the unnamed default into `.cargo/config-v3.toml`, so a row depending on
it SAYS so. The pin is load-bearing in both directions, measured two-sided on
this AVX-512 host:
codegen-witness.sh avx2 bare -> FAIL "has no packed logic" (grading v4)
codegen-witness.sh avx2 +v3 -> PASS
Overlay semantics verified rather than assumed (`cargo build -p encryption -v`):
cargo JOINS `target.<cfg>.rustflags` across config files and the last
`-Ctarget-cpu` wins, so config-v3 carries the target-cpu only and the two
crypto-backend cfgs come through the join intact.
TWO REAL DEFECTS THIS SURFACED ON DAY ONE, both in code the v3 default never
compiled and therefore never linted:
src/simd_int_ops.rs `needless_return` in the runtime-VNNI block. The lint
is CONFIG-DEPENDENT: the trailing scalar fallback is
cfg'd out when avx512vnni/avxvnni is a compile feature,
making the second `return` trailing there and
load-bearing on v3. `allow` not `expect` — `expect`
would fail the v3 build for the lint not firing.
examples/ternlogq_tail_descent_probe.rs
`print_literal`; the example is avx512f+avx512vl gated,
so the #311 clippy run never compiled it.
CI: the portable matrix row now pins v3 explicitly instead of inheriting it,
and a new non-gating `host-native` row reports what a GitHub runner actually
is (`lscpu` + the parity program's own `avx512f=` header). It is
`continue-on-error` on purpose — a row whose result is "whatever this runner
happens to be" must not gate a merge on pool scheduling.
Gates, exit codes checked:
cargo test --lib (native) 2375 passed
clippy --lib --examples --tests -D warnings native / v3 / v4 all clean
fmt --check clean
test --no-run --no-default-features clean
codegen-witness avx512 (bare) PASS
codegen-witness avx2 (+config-v3) PASS
masking-parity native / +config-v3 PASS, avx512f=true / false
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What
examples/ternlogq_tail_descent_probe.rs—mask_ternlogchunks overU64x8(512 rows) and pads its 1..7-word tail into three zeroed[u64; 8]arrays. The probe measures the alternative: descend zmm → ymm → xmm (4 + 2 + 1, every lane live, all in vector registers), and whether greedy widest-first beats an all-xmm split.AVX-512 only (
cfg(target_feature = "avx512f"), no-opmainotherwise so every matrix row builds);[[example]] required-features = ["std"]for the--no-default-featuresCI row.Measured (Xeon 2.10 GHz, v4 config, release, 3 runs)
Crux, tail only, ns/call:
4+2vs2+2+2)Greedy wins every
t >= 2: 1.3–1.6× over all-xmm, 5–8× over padding.t=1: greedy and all-xmm are the same instructions (tie, not ranked).End to end through the chunk loop:
ogar-r2ilCallMask = [u64;3]18.1 → 2.3 ns (7.7–8.0×); 1–7 words 5.9–8.0×; 31 words 2.5–3.3×; no-tail rows still 1.0–1.4× (loop shape, not tail) — tail-attributable ≈ 5–7×.asm: 33 zmm + 3 ymm + 6 xmm
vpternlogq, zero GPR logic on lane data — a descent is not the scalar peelcodegen-witness.shcaps atSLICE_GPR_CAP=6.Not in this PR
Wiring:
U64x4::ternlog/U64x2::ternlogon the facade + rewiringmask_ternlog's tail; an un-gatedpack<const L>sibling ofpack_under. Follow-up.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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