* ggml: aarch64: implement smmla kernel for q8_0_q8_0 quantized gemm
armv8.2-a and above supports MMLA instructions that have higher
throughput than DOT. this commit adds mmla kernel for
q8_0_q8_0 gemm. The feature is enabled if the platform supports
"__ARM_FEATURE_MATMUL_INT8"
On AWS Graviton3 processors this kernel resulted up to 1.5x
improvement for prompt evaluation throughput compared to the
default sdot kernel.
* ggml: aarch64: implement smmla kernel for q4_0_q8_0 quantized gemm
armv8.2-a and above supports MMLA instructions that have higher
throughput than DOT. this commit adds mmla kernel for
q4_0_q8_0 gemm. The feature is enabled if the platform supports
"__ARM_FEATURE_MATMUL_INT8"
On AWS Graviton3 processors this kernel resulted up to 1.5x
improvement for prompt evaluation throughput compared to the
default sdot kernel.
* ggml: aarch64: implement smmla kernel for q4_1_q8_1 quantized gemm
armv8.2-a and above supports MMLA instructions that have higher
throughput than DOT. this commit adds mmla kernel for
q4_1_q8_1 gemm. The feature is enabled if the platform supports
"__ARM_FEATURE_MATMUL_INT8"
On AWS Graviton3 processors this kernel resulted up to 1.5x
improvement for prompt evaluation throughput compared to the
default sdot kernel.
* ggml: update unit tests for the new vec_dot interface
* llama.cpp: add MATMUL_INT8 capability to system_info
* Generalize quantize_fns for simpler FP16 handling
* Remove call to ggml_cuda_mul_mat_get_wsize
* ci : disable FMA for mac os actions
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Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>
* A faster version for Q4_1 x Q8_0 dot products
The idea nehind being that Q8_0 quantized
values get used many times in the matrix multiplications
where they are involved. In the current implementations,
when we are evaluating the dot products, we need to compute
the sum of the quants in the Q8_0 vector, so the same
operation is repeated many times. Here we pre-compute
the sum during Q8_0 quantization, store it in the
now modified block_q8_0 struct, and then reuse this
result in the subsequent dot products.
In a synthetic benchmark (just compute a bunch of dot
products), this change speeds up the Q4_1 * Q8_0 dot
product by 80%, making the performance identical to
Q4_0 * Q8_0.
In practical application, I see a ~15% gain in speed for
token prediction on M2, and ~5% gain on Ryzen 7950X.
The speed gain in the prompt evaluation is much bigger
(around 50%).
I have only done the change for the scalar version,
ARM_NEON, and AVX2, so we still need an AVX implementation.
* Cleaning up
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Co-authored-by: Iwan Kawrakow <iwan.kawrakow@gmail.com>
On my Mac, the direct Q4_1 product is marginally slower
(~69 vs ~55 us for Q4_0). The SIMD-ified ggml version
is now almost 2X slower (~121 us).
On a Ryzen 7950X CPU, the direct product for Q4_1 quantization
is faster than the AVX2 implementation (~60 vs ~62 us).
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Co-authored-by: Iwan Kawrakow <iwan.kawrakow@gmail.com>
