MKL Performance issue in threaded application

[Xiaohui_Z_Intel]

Hi

We are working on RNN kernel optimization and we are trying to parallel 2 SGEMM on 2 socket SKX6148 server( 20 core per socket).

The SGEMM size is M = 20， N = 2400， K = 800.

Our target is to map the first SGEMM to socket0 and the other SGEMM to socket1.

We measured the GFLOPS with this benchmark(https://github.com/xhzhao/GemmEfficiency/tree/tbb), and got the following performance data:

• OMP 1 x 40 core                2261 GFLOPS    code: https://github.com/xhzhao/GemmEfficiency/blob/tbb/test_omp.cpp#L120
• Pthread 2 * 20 core            3550 GFLOPS    code: https://github.com/xhzhao/GemmEfficiency/blob/tbb/test_omp.cpp#L291
• OMP Nested 2 x 20 core   1068 GFLOPS     code: https://github.com/xhzhao/GemmEfficiency/blob/tbb/test_omp.cpp#L336
• TBB Nested 2 x 20 core     752 GFLOPS      code: https://github.com/xhzhao/GemmEfficiency/blob/tbb/test_tbb.cpp#L159

I found that the performance of OMP+MKL or TBB MKL is not as good as we expect, and i'm not sure if i miss something with MKL in threaded application.

BTW, the pthread+MKL solution is not suitable for our real case , as it will double the threads and make the performance even worse.

Thanks in advance.