/* SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later */ /** * @file resident_vector_writer.c * @brief Writer third of BOTH resident vector triads -- elementwise and softmax -- and the * processor that PUBLISHES COMPLETION, per core and per group. * * ONE WRITER FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY, AND PROBABLY FOR MOST OF THE REMAINING OPS. A writer * is "drain `tile_count` tiles from CB_OUT to (x, y, base)". It does not know what * produced them, what shape they came from, or which function ran: those are the reader's * and the compute thread's business. Every op in resident_vector_protocol.h's family * therefore shares this source, and the only reason resident_matmul_writer.c is a * separate file is that the matmul parameter block spells the same three fields at * different word offsets. Unifying the two block layouts -- an "output descriptor" * sub-block every family shares -- is the follow-up that would make this ONE writer for * every op there will ever be. Worth doing before op 10, not after op 40. * * WHY THE WRITER OWNS COMPLETION (resident_queue_protocol.h rule 1). An op is not done * when the reader has fetched its operands or when the SFPU has finished; it is done when * the result has left L1. So this processor owns `completed_count` and `completed_token`, * the reader owns `tail`, and nothing else writes either. * * AND WHY IT FETCHES ON `head` BUT PUBLISHES ON `tail`. Fetching on `tail` is a pipeline * deadlock, not a precaution -- the output CB fills, compute blocks in cb_reserve_back, * the reader blocks because nothing drains the inputs, and the reader can never reach the * end of the descriptor to bump `tail`. resident_matmul_writer.c records the run that * cost. So the reader's half is a precondition of PUBLISHING and not of STARTING. * * * AND WHY IT FANS OUT. An activation strip lives in ONE of the card's eight ~59 GB/s DRAM * banks, and every member of a split matmul reads the WHOLE of it — so N members put N * readers on one bank and the card runs at 16% of its 511 GB/s peak however many cores it * spreads over. This writer is the producer of the two strips that carry ~88% of that * traffic (`normed`, a REDUCE output, and `ffn_swiglu`, an ELTWISE one), so it is the one * place a mirror can be made. What it costs is R NoC writes under ONE barrier; what it * buys is R banks' worth of read bandwidth on the consumer side. The map is * kernels/resident_output_replicas.h and it is EMPTY unless the host filled it in. * * C99 on Foundry's own `ft_tensix_dataflow.h` — no tt-metal include (plan Phase 6.6). * The wait mode, which used to be a `template ` argument, is now an * ordinary parameter carrying the same compile-time value; `-Os` folds it identically. * Compile-time args: * 0: CB_OUT index 1: output tile size in bytes * 2: wait mode -- 0 upstream, 1 stoppable (ships), 2 bound-only * Runtime args: the ten of resident_queue_protocol.h, identical on all five processors * * Build (NCRISC, NoC 1): * CTARGS=16,2048,1 NOC=1 KERNEL_TEXT_BASE=0x18000 bash \ * foundry/tt/build_tensix_dataflow_kernel.sh \ * foundry/tt/kernels/resident_vector_writer.c ncrisc /tmp/ttk_eltwise * * @status BUILT ON THE CARD HOST 2026-08-12, NOT RUN -- text 1936 B, bss 24 B on NCRISC. See * tests/test_phase6_vector.c for the on-card acceptance. * @issues None * @todo None */ #include #include #include "ft_tensix_dataflow.h" #include "resident_output_replicas.h" #include "resident_queue_protocol.h" #include "resident_vector_protocol.h" #define CB_OUT ft_tensix_compile_time_arg(0) #define OUT_TILE_BYTES ft_tensix_compile_time_arg(1) #define WAIT_MODE ft_tensix_compile_time_arg(2) /** * Drain one descriptor's output tiles. * * The barrier is per tile, as it is in resident_matmul_writer.c and * vector_add_writer.c. That WAS a cost nobody had measured; it is now measured, and it * is large where nothing hides it: 546.9 ns a tile on MUL 144 -> DRAM, against 148.1 for * one barrier per 8 tiles and 178.8 for upstream's flush-per-tile shape * (resident_vector_writer_blocked.c and _flushed.c carry the tables). It is still * deliberately UNCHANGED here, because both cheaper arms are byte-identical measurement * arms nothing ships against, and because on an SFPU-bound op the whole difference * disappears — the SILU control moved 1.000x. Adopting one is a decision about which * invariant to carry, not about which number is smaller. */ static bool write_one_vector_op(ftq_context *ctx, volatile FTQ_L1_PTR uint32_t *parameters, bool reduce) { /* L4: a REDUCE descriptor with a column slice (kRedFinal byte 3, resident_reduce_protocol.h * ftr_slice) writes only tiles [first, first + count) of each row, at their whole-row * offsets. Decoded here without the reduce header: word 15, byte 3 = members<<4 | member. */ const uint32_t tile_cols = parameters[kVecTileCols]; const uint32_t slice_code = reduce ? (parameters[15] >> 24) & 0xFFu : 0u; const uint32_t slice_members = slice_code >> 4; const bool sliced = slice_members >= 2u && (slice_code & 0xFu) < slice_members && tile_cols != 0u && tile_cols % slice_members == 0u; const uint32_t slice_count = sliced ? tile_cols / slice_members : tile_cols; const uint32_t slice_first = sliced ? (slice_code & 0xFu) * slice_count : 0u; const uint32_t tile_count = sliced ? (parameters[kVecTileCount] / tile_cols) * slice_count : parameters[kVecTileCount]; const uint32_t probe = ftv_probe_bits(parameters[kVecDepth]); uint32_t destination_x[FT_TT_REPLICA_MAX_DESTINATIONS]; uint32_t destination_y[FT_TT_REPLICA_MAX_DESTINATIONS]; uint32_t destination_base[FT_TT_REPLICA_MAX_DESTINATIONS]; /* THE REPLICA LOOKUP IS ONCE PER DESCRIPTOR, NOT ONCE PER TILE. The table is keyed on * the destination triple and cannot change under a descriptor, so hoisting it out of * the tile loop is free and keeps the unreplicated path exactly one indexed store and * one compare away from what shipped. An absent or empty table returns 1, and the loop * below is then the pre-replication loop instruction for instruction. */ const uint32_t destinations = ftr_resolve_destinations((const volatile uint32_t *)(uintptr_t)FT_TT_REPLICA_TABLE_ADDRESS, parameters[kVecCX], parameters[kVecCY], parameters[kVecCBase], destination_x, destination_y, destination_base); for (uint32_t tile = 0; tile < tile_count; tile++) { const bool have_tile = ftq_cb_wait_front_stoppable(ctx, (int32_t)CB_OUT, 1, WAIT_MODE); if (have_tile && (probe & kVecProbeNoWrite) == 0u) { const uint32_t source = ft_tensix_cb_read_pointer(CB_OUT); const uint32_t out_tile = sliced ? (tile / slice_count) * tile_cols + slice_first + tile % slice_count : tile; const uint32_t offset = out_tile * OUT_TILE_BYTES; /* ONE BARRIER FOR ALL R WRITES, not R barriers. The barrier is what the 546.9 * ns a tile is (148.1 at one per eight), so a per-replica barrier would make * the fan-out cost R times the whole write instead of R times the ISSUE. The * invariant the barrier carries is unchanged: the CB page must not be popped * until every read of it has landed, and that is a property of the SET of * writes, not of each one. */ for (uint32_t copy = 0u; copy < destinations; copy++) ft_tensix_noc_write(source, ft_tensix_noc_address(destination_x[copy], destination_y[copy], destination_base[copy] + offset), OUT_TILE_BYTES); /* THE PAGE MAY BE POPPED ONCE ITS DATA HAS LEFT L1 (flushed) — all the pop * needs. The ACK barrier, which is what publishing needs, moves to the * descriptor's end (E3, 2026-10-04: the per-tile ack was ~14 us of a 33 us ADD; * decode +4.5%, IDENTICAL). kVecProbeLegacyBarrier restores the per-tile ack. */ if ((probe & kVecProbeLegacyBarrier) != 0u) ft_tensix_noc_write_barrier(); else ft_tensix_noc_writes_flushed_barrier(); } ft_tensix_cb_pop_front(CB_OUT, 1); } /* Every write ACKED before the descriptor can be published (writes leave L1 at the * flush, but land in DRAM at the ack; the completion post must follow the landing). */ ft_tensix_noc_write_barrier(); return !ctx->aborting; } void kernel_main(void) { ftq_context ctx; uint32_t completed; bool running = true; ftq_context_init(&ctx); ftq_status_set(&ctx, kStateBoot); if (!ftq_check_control(&ctx)) { ftq_status_set(&ctx, kStateExit); return; } completed = ctx.control[kFieldCompletedCount]; ctx.cursor = completed; while (running) { // FETCH on `head`, so the writer drains the output CB while the reader is still // filling the input ones. Publishing waits on `tail`, below. if (!ftq_wait_for_work(&ctx, kFieldHead)) break; ctx.aborting = false; ftq_status_set(&ctx, kStateExec); volatile FTQ_L1_PTR uint32_t *descriptor = ftq_descriptor(&ctx); const uint32_t opcode = descriptor[kDescOpcode]; const uint32_t token = descriptor[kDescToken]; const uint32_t group_sequence = descriptor[kDescA5]; bool done = true; ftq_status_opcode(&ctx, opcode); /* kOpReduce carries the same three output words at the same offsets, which is the * whole reason one writer serves the family (file header). */ if (opcode == kOpEltwise || opcode == kOpSoftmax || opcode == kOpReduce) { ftq_status_set(&ctx, kStateCbWaitFront); done = write_one_vector_op(&ctx, ftq_parameters(descriptor), opcode == kOpReduce); ftq_status_set(&ctx, kStateExec); } else if (opcode == kOpStop) { running = false; } if (!done) { running = false; continue; } // THE PRECONDITION, and the only place it belongs: the reader must have finished // this descriptor before its completion is published. For these ops that is already // true by construction — the last output tile cannot exist until the last input was // read — so it costs nothing here. For an opcode the writer does not participate // in, it is the whole of the guarantee. if (!ftq_wait_until_reaches(&ctx, kFieldTail, ctx.cursor + 1u)) { running = false; continue; } ctx.cursor++; // Token before count: a host that sees the count is entitled to trust the token it // reads next. Both are plain stores from ONE in-order RISC-V, which is the only // ordering argument this protocol makes and the only one it needs — every other // control word has a different single writer (ft_tt_queue.h, THE ORDERING // ASSUMPTION). ctx.control[kFieldCompletedToken] = token; ctx.control[kFieldCompletedCount] = ++completed; ftq_group_post(&ctx, group_sequence, token); } // The writer does NOT touch kFieldError or kFieldState: the reader owns those, and one // writer per word is the whole ordering argument. ftq_status_set(&ctx, kStateExit); }