vulkan: Add bfloat16 support #12554
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The tooling for Vulkan bfloat16 is not all merged yet - see KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools#6057 and KhronosGroup/glslang#3905. So if anybody wants to try this locally, you'd need to build a custom glslc. I'll update when it's all merged NVIDIA will release a Vulkan developer driver with support for this extension, hopefully tomorrow. |
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I've rebased this, and added a fallback (promote to fp32) when bf16 coopmat support isn't available. Still waiting on the tooling to be merged, so still Draft for now. |
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This adds bfloat16 matrix multiply support based on VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16. The extension is required for coopmat multiply support, but matrix-vector multiply trivially promotes bf16 to fp32 and doesn't require the extension. The copy/get_rows shaders also don't require the extension. It's probably possible to fall back to non-coopmat and promote to fp32 when the extension isn't supported, but this change doesn't do that. The coopmat support also requires a glslc that supports the extension, which currently requires a custom build.
…pport Compile a variant of the scalar mul_mm shader that will promote the bf16 values to float, and use that when either the bf16 extension or the coopmat extensions aren't available.
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glslc support has landed. I've rebased this change again and it's ready for review. |
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This adds bfloat16 matrix multiply support based on VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16. The extension is required for coopmat multiply support, but matrix-vector multiply trivially promotes bf16 to fp32 and doesn't require the extension. The copy/get_rows shaders also don't require the extension.
It's probably possible to fall back to non-coopmat and promote to fp32 when the extension isn't supported, but this change doesn't do that.
The coopmat support also requires a glslc that supports the extension, which currently requires a custom build.