b9928

ggml-org/llama.cppb9928Jul 8, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

Focuses on performance improvements to the Hexagon backend, specifically regarding memory management and kernel pipelines.

Key Highlights

  • New VTCM layouts and improved pipelines for MUL_MAT, MUL_MAT_ID, and FLASH_ATTN_EXT
  • Refactored kernel parameter computation using common layout builder
  • Improved DMA pipelining and prefetching with explicit compiler barriers

New Features

  • New VTCM layouts and improved pipelines for Hexagon kernels

Full Release Notes

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hexagon: new vtcm layouts and improved pipelines for MUL_MAT, MUL_MAT_ID and FLASH_ATTN_EXT (#25425)

* hex-fa: refactor kernel param compute to use common layout builder

* hmx: add explicit compiler barriers to make hmx funcs more robust

* hex-vtcm: more generic vtcm layout builder for mm and flash-attn kernels

* hex-hmx: unroll inner kernels

* hex-hmx: use inline asm instead of intrinsics to avoid compiler issues

* hex-hmx: define inline asm macros and simplify code

* hex-hmx: replace leftover intrinsics

* hmx-fa: minor cleanup for hmx asm

* hmx-mm: move per-task stucts out of the kernels header

* hmx-mm: simplify core_dot_chunk

* hmx-mm: simplify inner loops that call hmx instructions

* hmx-mm: proper instrumentation for activation prep work for dma pipelined version

* hmx-mm: update a-prep loop for better prefetch

* hex-vtcm: improved vtcm layout alloc for mm to support overlapping areas

* hmx-mm: reduce the number of act fetch tows to 4 for now, going larger doesnt help here

* hex-hmx: always use hmx-queue in all modes

* hmx-mm: update comments and minor formatting

* hmx-mm: further improve synchro fallback path to prefetch the weights earlier

* hex-fa: further pipeline improvements (earlier prefetch)

* hmx-mm: cleanup dma pipelines to use dst cached in the queue

* hmx-fa: minor cleanup and opts for fa dma pipelines

* hmx-fa: optimize q-prep stage with dma and unrolling

* hmx-fa: use o_tile size from layout instead of computing it

* hmx-mm: cleanup types and size handling

* hmx-mm: replace divs with fastdiv in qprep loops

* hmx-fa: minor update/formatting to q_tile handling

* hmx-fa: cleanup the layout to avoid overpadding

* hmx-fa: simplified and improved cost mode for hmx fa solver that uses vtcm layout funcs

* hmx-queue: add support queue wakeup and make suspend async to avoid hmx-lock latency

* hex-hmx: move queue wakeup / suspend to the op-batch level

* hex-threads: add hybrid polling to workpool

* hex-mm: fix trailing spaces

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