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Rename options --cuda-gpu-arch and --no-cuda-gpu-arch
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Authored by yaxunl on Mar 28 2020, 6:17 AM.

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Options --cuda-gpu-arch and --no-cuda-gpu-arch are shared between
CUDA and HIP. It is desirable to rename them for more generic
names to avoid confusion.

One option is --gpu-arch and --no-gpu-arch. However HIP may be
ported to other devices not limited to gpu, so it may be better
to name them as --offload-arch and --no-offload-arch.

Other choices may be:

--device-arch
--offload-device-arch
--accelerator-arch
--aux-arch
--aux-cpu

The original options will be alias to the new options.

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yaxunl created this revision.Mar 28 2020, 6:17 AM
yaxunl edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Mar 28 2020, 6:20 AM

This was discussed on llvm-dev three years ago. Here is the thread.

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-February/109930.html

The last name discussed was "-- offload-arch". I don't believe we need a list option anymore. So ignore the very old request for --offload-archs.

I am ok with the patch the way it is. In the future, we should consider renaming the CudaArch class to OffloadArch class . Also the GpuArchList is currently only initialized in CudaActionBuilder. Eventually this is will have to be done for HIPActionBuilder and OpenMPActionBuilder. Could you consider creating a function to InitializeGpuArchList ?

tra accepted this revision.Mar 30 2020, 12:17 PM
tra added a reviewer: echristo.
tra added a subscriber: echristo.

+ @echristo who OK'ed the idea conditional on the actual patch. :-)

LGTM overall.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 30 2020, 12:17 PM

This was discussed on llvm-dev three years ago. Here is the thread.

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-February/109930.html

The last name discussed was "-- offload-arch". I don't believe we need a list option anymore. So ignore the very old request for --offload-archs.

I am ok with the patch the way it is. In the future, we should consider renaming the CudaArch class to OffloadArch class . Also the GpuArchList is currently only initialized in CudaActionBuilder. Eventually this is will have to be done for HIPActionBuilder and OpenMPActionBuilder. Could you consider creating a function to InitializeGpuArchList ?

GpuArchList is initialized by member function initialize() of CudaActionBuilderBase, which is inherited by CudaActionBuilder and HIPActionBuilder, therefore GpuArchList is initialized in both CudaActionBuilder and HIPActionBuilder.

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