Match GAP9 SDK MLPerf Tiny performance with specialised depthwise and pointwise kernels - #206
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WalkthroughThe change adds optimized PULP pointwise, stem, and depthwise convolution kernels. It adds PULP-specific layout lowering and tiling. GAP9 now maps these operations and adds quantization, dequantization, and NE16 paths. ChangesPULP and GAP9 convolution integration
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~75 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The new optimized convolution paths can produce incorrect results or access memory outside valid tensor tiles for supported shapes and parameters, while some valid models may be rejected during lowering; required formatting checks also remain failing. Merge should be blocked until these correctness, boundary-handling, and readiness issues are fixed. Possibly related PRs
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GraphLowering->>PULPParser: classify eligible pointwise or stem convolution
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PULPTiler->>GAP9Platform: register tiled binding and mapper
GAP9Platform->>PULPKernel: invoke selected specialized convolution kernel
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TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/inc/kernel/PULPDWConv3x3.h (1)
12-26: LGTM!TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/inc/DeeployPULPMath.h (1)
31-31: LGTM!TargetLibraries/GAP9/inc/DeeployGAP9Math.h (1)
22-22: 🎯 Functional Correctness
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Line 22 exposes a function whose supplied definition is in
TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PULPDWConv3x3.c. Verify that the GAP9 library build imports or compiles this source. Otherwise generated GAP9 depthwise code will fail to link.TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PULPDWConv3x3.c (1)
49-160: LGTM!Deeploy/Targets/PULPOpen/Templates/ConvTemplate.py (1)
156-164: LGTM!
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In `@TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PULPDWConv3x3.c`:
- Around line 56-61: Update the optimized-path guard in PULPDWConv3x3 to require
at least two input rows when using stride 2, so single-row inputs fall back to
the generic kernel; preserve the existing optimized behavior for valid stride-1
and multi-row stride-2 inputs.
In `@TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PULPPWConv1x1.c`:
- Around line 48-51: Update the optimized pointwise-path guard in PULPPWConv1x1
to fall back when ch_out is not divisible by four, and require kernel size 1x1,
stride 1, and no padding before entering the loop; otherwise dispatch to
pulp_nn_pointwise_u8_u8_i8.
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130-141: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRequire four-channel alignment before selecting the pointwise kernel.
The specialized predicate does not require
ch_im_in % 4 == 0.DeeployPULP_PW_Conv2d_1x1_CHWOut_u8_u8_i8processes onlych_in >> 2vector groups. It discards one to three input channels whench_im_inis not divisible by four.Add the alignment condition to this predicate. Route other channel counts to the generic pointwise kernel, or add a scalar remainder loop to the specialized kernel.
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122-124: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value
SkipUnityRequantPassis registered twice with identical arguments.Lines 123 and 124 are the same call. If the repetition is intentional, it implements a second cleanup sweep after the first pass exposes new unity requant nodes. Add a short comment that states this. If the repetition is a copy-paste, remove one entry.
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`@Deeploy/CommonExtensions/OptimizationPasses/TopologyOptimizationPasses/LoweringOptimizationPasses.py`:
- Around line 449-452: Update the pads validation in the stem-convolution check
to use a concrete default representing absent padding, matching the approach in
isPULPPointwise. Ensure a 3x3 node without a pads attribute fails the [1, 1, 1,
1] padding requirement and is not routed through the stem-convolution path.
In `@Deeploy/Targets/PULPOpen/TileConstraints/StemConvTileConstraint.py`:
- Around line 172-173: Apply the configured YAPF formatting to the code
surrounding computeInputCube in StemConvTileConstraint.py, and keep the
formatter’s output so the pre-commit formatting check passes.
In `@TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PULPDWConv3x3.c`:
- Around line 161-194: Guard the speculative V1 and V2 row loads in the stride_y
== 2 path against H before dereferencing them, including the loads at
initialization and after each main-loop iteration. Use ZERO when the
corresponding row index is outside the input height, while preserving the
existing valid-row loads and tail-loop behavior.
In `@TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PULPStemConv3x3.c`:
- Around line 39-56: At TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PULPStemConv3x3.c lines
39-56, update DeeployPULP_Conv2d_3x3_CHW_u8_u8_i8 to reject non-NULL pBias and
require flag_relu and flag_batch_norm to be zero at entry. At
TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PULPPWConv1x1.c lines 147-165, update
DeeployPULP_PW_Conv2d_1x1_CHWOut_u8_u8_i8 with the same argument validation
pattern used by the HWC entry point, covering kernel dimensions, strides, all
padding values, pBias, activation flags, and ch_in divisibility by four.
Apply the same fix in `@TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PULPPWConv1x1.c` around lines
147 - 165: Covers the CHW-output kernel's missing argument and channel-alignment
validation.
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In `@Deeploy/Targets/PULPOpen/Templates/ConvTemplate.py`:
- Around line 130-141: Update the specialized 1x1 pointwise-kernel predicate in
the ConvTemplate generation logic to also require ch_im_in to be divisible by
four. Preserve the existing stride and padding checks, and route non-aligned
input-channel counts to the generic pulp_nn_pointwise path instead of the
specialized DeeployPULP_PW_Conv2d_1x1 kernel.
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In `@Deeploy/Targets/GAP9/Platform.py`:
- Around line 122-124: Resolve the duplicate SkipUnityRequantPass registration
with identical previous_op_regex and num_inputs arguments: remove the redundant
entry if it is accidental, or retain both and add a short comment explaining
that the second pass performs a cleanup sweep for nodes exposed by the first.
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96-127: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winFix the width-three word-load safety check.
wordSafechecks onlyinp + 2 * W + 4. It becomes true for a last channel withH >= 4, but the final valid row still uses a four-byte load that reads one byte pastpIn + ch_out * plane.For example, with
W == 3,H == 4, and the last channel,V1at output row 3 loads bytes at offsets 9 through 12. Offset 12 is outside the tensor allocation.Use
DeeployPULP_dw_load3for the final channel, or check each vector-load address against the allocation end. Do not form pointers beyond the allocation during the safety test.Proposed fix
- const int wordSafe = (inp + 2 * W + 4) <= (pIn + (size_t)ch_out * plane); + const int wordSafe = c + 1 < ch_out;🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 96-127: Correct the wordSafe logic in the depthwise convolution
loading path so four-byte loads are used only when every possible V0, V1, and V2
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In `@Deeploy/Targets/PULPOpen/TileConstraints/StemConvTileConstraint.py`:
- Around line 181-189: Update the loop around
Conv2DTileConstraint.computeInputCube to retain each tile’s
AbsoluteHyperRectangle and pass its absolute output offset via
outputAbsoluteOffsets. Preserve the existing relative cube coordinates and other
arguments.
- Around line 100-101: Remove the input-height and input-width
stride-divisibility constraints from the StemConv tiler constraints so valid
padded stride-2 edge tiles, including odd-sized full inputs, remain tileable;
preserve other validity constraints and rely on tile-offset constraints if
needed.
In `@TargetLibraries/PULPOpen/src/PULPStemConv3x3.c`:
- Around line 121-130: Update the rolling-row loop around V0, V1, and V2 to use
stride-specific rotation: preserve the current row sequence for stride_y == 2,
but advance V0, V1, and V2 by one row for stride_y == 1. Guard the next-row
loads so they occur only when another full iteration remains, avoiding reads
beyond the valid input height.
- Around line 61-119: Apply clang-format to the modified code in the
PULPStemConv3x3 implementation and commit the formatter’s output, preserving all
existing behavior and logic.
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… three-channel stem pulp_nn_pointwise splits the output rows across the cluster, which degenerates when dim_out_y is not a multiple of NUM_CORES: on MobileNetV1's 6x6 stages two of eight cores get no row and odd columns fall into a one-pixel tail. The three kernels here split the work so every core has a whole share, and each keeps its inner loop down to what the arithmetic needs -- the taps in three v4s registers, the rows rotating so an output costs one load, and only the interior column's variant live, since holding all of them spills the scale and shift back into every iteration. The stem sums its input channels through a column of 32-bit accumulators rather than in registers: nine taps and nine rotating rows do not fit at once. The SDK injects -Os globally, which costs these three about a factor of two, so they are compiled at -O3.
pulp_nn_depthwise reads channels-first and writes channels-last, so a transpose was left over at every pointwise-to-depthwise boundary: 136k cycles on VisualWakeWords, 9% of its runtime, for no MACs. Two nodes now mirror that asymmetry -- a 1x1 convolution that reads channels-last and writes channels-first, and a three-channel stem that stays channels-first throughout -- each with its own tile constraint and a parser that gates on the exact shape its kernel handles, so anything else keeps the existing path. Requiring the stem's consumer to be depthwise matters: feeding a dense convolution instead only moves the transpose, which cost ResNet8 120k cycles before the gate was tightened.
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isPULPPointwise decided the output layout from the node's shape alone, but whether the u8 kernel it selects can be bound also depends on the *input* being unsigned -- which nothing checked. Types are not resolved at lowering time, so the producer's `signed` attribute is the evidence available. MobileNetV2 shows why it matters. Its projection layers have no ReLU, so the expansion pointwise that follows one reads int8. The lowering pass had already committed that node to a channels-first output and dropped the transpose that would put it back, so when no u8 binding matched, falling back to PULPConv2DParser left a graph whose shapes no longer agreed: parsing died with "Backtracking exhausted at root" at the first such layer. Tests/Models/MobileNetv2 is in the tree but not in any platform's test config, which is why this went unnoticed. The check walks back through the transposes the earlier layout passes inserted -- the DW pass runs first and its transpose would otherwise hide the producer -- and treats an input with no single producer as signed. Committing a layout for a node whose binding may not exist is the failure this is guarding against, so the conservative answer is the safe one. Nothing measurable changes on the networks that were already covered: VisualWakeWords 1,077,814, KeywordSpotting 299,315, ImageClassification 1,363,824, AnomalyDetection 77,532 on GAP9; VisualWakeWords 1,394,457, miniMobileNet 48,941, miniMobileNetv2 106,423 on Siracusa. All 0 errors, all identical to the previous commit. MobileNetv2 now behaves as on devel.
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MobileNetV1 on GAP9 spent 9% of its cycles on transposes and ran its depthwise and pointwise layers
through kernels that leave most of the cluster idle. This adds three specialised kernels and the
layout handling to keep them fed, closing the gap to the GAP9 SDK on MLPerf Tiny.
Added
PULPDWConv3x3.c— 3x3 depthwise, stride 1 and 2. Taps live in threev4sregisters, input rowsrotate so a stride-1 output costs one load, and the row loop is unrolled by three so that rotation
is a renaming. Only the interior column's taps stay live across the column loop.
PULPPWConv1x1.c— 1x1 split over output channels instead of output rows, with the pixel loopnested inside so the matmul prologue is not paid per pixel pair.
PULPStemConv3x3.c— 3x3 over a three-channel input, replacing a 27-byte im2col column per outputpixel. A window is three
v4sdot products; input channels are summed through one column of 32-bitaccumulators per core, since nine taps and nine rotating rows do not fit in registers.
RQPWConv2DTileConstraint,RQStemConv2DTileConstraint, and parsers gating on the exact shapesthese kernels handle — anything else keeps the existing path.
Changed
channels-first throughout.
pulp_nn_depthwisereads channels-first and writes channels-last, sothis cancels the transposes at every pointwise-to-depthwise boundary.
PULPRQSConvLayer.computeShapestakes the channel dimension from the node's output layout ratherthan assuming the last axis.
_KERNEL_O3_FILES(GAP9: -O3 hot kernels; make tile-control-table memory level configurable #199). The SDK injects-Osglobally,which spills their accumulators and costs them about a factor of two.
Fixed
pulp_nn_pointwisesplits output rows, which degenerates whendim_out_yis not a multiple ofNUM_CORES: on MobileNetV1's 6x6 stages two of eight cores get no row at all.Benchmark
MLPerf Tiny, GAP9, 8 cores, no NE16,
--l1 115000 --l2 1300000, cycles from gvsoc. Reference is theGAP9 SDK (nntool/Autotiler, same models and quantization) at
--L1=115712, the closest budget to ours.ImageClassification and AnomalyDetection come out cycle-identical: neither has a depthwise layer nor
a three-channel stem feeding one, so the gates reject every node and both take the existing path
unchanged. They are here to show the absence of a regression, not a gain.
End to end on VisualWakeWords: 1,077,814 against the SDK's 1,136,336, both given about 115 KB of L1.
On Siracusa at
--l1 64000the same kernels give VisualWakeWords 3,170,241 → 1,394,457,miniMobileNet 49,960 → 48,941, miniMobileNetv2 112,062 → 106,423. Every run above passes with 0
errors on both targets.
Neither side gains from more L1: Deeploy returns identical cycle counts anywhere between 64,000 and
122,880, and the SDK's total is unchanged at 118,784. Asking nntool for 122,880 produces a model whose
allocator fails at startup, so that configuration is not one this comparison can stand on.
The SDK reference is its fastest configuration per model, which is not the same layout for all of
them: channels-last is faster for KeywordSpotting and ImageClassification, but on VisualWakeWords the
SDK's own channels-last build costs 1,392,181 cycles against 1,136,336 channels-first, so the
depthwise layers want channels-first there too.
Both sides spend about a tenth of their cycles moving tiles: the SDK's generated code reports
1 logical tiles, 1 physical tilesfor these layers, so like Deeploy it copies in, computes, and copiesout without overlap. Enabling
--doublebufferin Deeploy is a large loss (1,972,223 at--l1 64000against 1,105,956) because halving each tensor's L1 budget forces many small tiles, and the
per-column preamble below dominates at that size.
Known limitations
PULPStemConvTemplateoverrideshoistTransientBuffersonly to turn a hardcoded static call intoself., so itscomputeTransientBuffersSizeis reached. The fix belongs inPULP2DConvTemplate.RQStemConv2DTileConstraintrequires the tile height to be a multiple of the stride.186k/123k. The two residuals are one effect — these kernels take 24 parameters, so as the feature
map shrinks the per-column preamble stops being amortised (19 cycles/output at 48x48, 65 at 3x3).
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