Thread loop optimizations RAJA launch by artv3 · Pull Request #1949 · llnl/RAJA

artv3 · 2025-11-25T14:02:33Z

This PR is a collaboration space for exploring optimization within RAJA launch and the loop abstraction

include/RAJA/pattern/launch/launch_core.hpp

include/RAJA/policy/hip/launch.hpp

artv3 · 2025-12-02T17:13:47Z

Hi @LLNL/raja-core, in collaboration with AMD staff we found a key optimization for nested loops within RAJA::launch.
This would be nice to have for the upcoming release, the downside is that it introduces another set of policies similar to the existing RAJA::hip_thread_loop_{x,y,z} policies. One thought is to retire the old policies in favor of these new ones, but for performance tracking are the old ones worth keeping?

MrBurmark · 2025-12-02T17:32:31Z

I wonder if we can't use the same policies but with an extra template argument to choose between the global and context versions of the variables.

rhornung67 · 2025-12-02T17:34:41Z

I don't think it's a problem to keep the old policies and have a lot of alternatives for folks to try. We do need to work on documenting policies better and have a comprehensive cookbook of examples that clearly show the differences between policies choices, including usage, performance, and how to choose.

MrBurmark · 2025-12-02T17:39:26Z

Do we want to make populating the context variables optional in case we find any overhead there?

MrBurmark · 2025-12-02T17:40:06Z

Any thoughts on blockIdx and gridDim?

artv3 · 2025-12-02T19:12:53Z

Do we want to make populating the context variables optional in case we find any overhead there?

oh for register heavy kernels? that makes sense

artv3 · 2025-12-02T19:14:45Z

Any thoughts on blockIdx and gridDim?

I see pro and cons, pro - for completeness could be handy, con - takes up more registers. Maybe we can do partial specializations of the launch context or something like that. This may be less common use cases though.

MrBurmark · 2025-12-02T20:01:38Z

Ya, I'm imagining the context and some policies both having a switch. Then in the loop implementation it checks that if the policy uses the switch then the context must have the same switch.

template < bool switch >
struct Policy;

template < bool switch >
struct Context;

template < bool policy_switch, bool context_switch >
void loop(Policy<policy_switch>, Context<context_switch>)
{
  static_assert(!policy_switch || (policy_switch  && context_switch),
                "If policy has switch then context must have switch");
}

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include/RAJA/pattern/launch/launch_core.hpp

include/RAJA/policy/cuda/launch.hpp

MrBurmark · 2025-12-11T16:37:40Z

include/RAJA/policy/cuda/launch.hpp

+    for (int i = ::RAJA::internal::CudaDimHelper<DIM>::get(ctx.thread_id);
+         i < len; i += ::RAJA::internal::CudaDimHelper<DIM>::get(ctx.block_dim))


If constexpr to get the values based on StoreDim3?

Can you share an example?

See line 165 above if constexpr (LaunchContextT<LaunchContextPolicy>::hasDim3)

I wanted to echo that I think this is a good idea

Not sure if possible though because ctx is a function parameter

We were able to get the argument type if there is one operator() that is not templated and has at least one argument. If that isn't true then it will use the default.

Co-authored-by: Jason Burmark <[email protected]>

include/RAJA/policy/sequential/policy.hpp

artv3 · 2025-12-18T16:08:54Z

@MrBurmark , do you have time to take a look? I think I pushed up the ideas we had yesterday

include/RAJA/pattern/launch/launch_context_policy.hpp

include/RAJA/pattern/launch/launch_core.hpp

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include/RAJA/policy/cuda/launch.hpp

include/RAJA/policy/hip/launch.hpp

include/RAJA/pattern/launch/launch_context_policy.hpp

johnbowen42 · 2025-12-18T22:49:15Z

include/RAJA/pattern/launch/launch_context_policy.hpp

+//is pointer a type just pass it through otherwise do give me the operator
+//static error if not a function type
+
+//template <typename Lambda>


looks like there might be some cruft here, we should delete before merging

johnbowen42 · 2025-12-18T22:50:01Z

include/RAJA/pattern/launch/launch_context_policy.hpp

+//  - If T is a function pointer, use function_traits<T> directly
+//  - Otherwise, assume it is a callable object and use &T::operator()
+template <typename T>
+using lambda_traits =


johnbowen42 · 2025-12-18T22:56:04Z

include/RAJA/policy/cuda/launch.hpp

+    for (int i = ::RAJA::internal::CudaDimHelper<DIM>::get(ctx.thread_id);
+         i < len; i += ::RAJA::internal::CudaDimHelper<DIM>::get(ctx.block_dim))


I wanted to echo that I think this is a good idea

johnbowen42 · 2025-12-18T22:56:40Z

include/RAJA/policy/cuda/launch.hpp

+    for (int i = ::RAJA::internal::CudaDimHelper<DIM>::get(ctx.thread_id);
+         i < len; i += ::RAJA::internal::CudaDimHelper<DIM>::get(ctx.block_dim))


Not sure if possible though because ctx is a function parameter

johnbowen42 · 2025-12-18T23:01:08Z

include/RAJA/policy/cuda/launch.hpp

-  ctx.shared_mem_ptr = raja_shmem_ptr;

-  RAJA::expt::invoke_body(reduce_params, body, ctx);
+  if constexpr (LaunchContextT<LaunchContextPolicy>::hasDim3)


I think we need to use your new type traits here as well? similar to the HIP backend

include/RAJA/policy/hip/launch.hpp

artv3 · 2025-12-19T10:56:38Z

include/RAJA/policy/hip/launch.hpp

+template<named_dim DIM, typename Dim3Like>
+RAJA_INLINE RAJA_DEVICE int get_dim(Dim3Like const& d)
+{
+  if constexpr (DIM == named_dim::x)


@MrBurmark @johnbowen42 , is this the usage of if constexpr you all had in mind?

No, I was thinking about doing if constexcpr (LaunchContextType::hasDim3) in the exec functions instead of adding new policies. Also there is already a function to get the named dims from a dim3.

ohh.. that makes sense now

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store dim3 based on launch context type - hip

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		for (int i = ::RAJA::internal::CudaDimHelper<DIM>::get(ctx.thread_id);
		i < len; i += ::RAJA::internal::CudaDimHelper<DIM>::get(ctx.block_dim))

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