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cblas_gemm_s8s8s32 not support？

qiang__zhang
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‎04-16-2020 01:12 AM
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Dear sir，

I hava a question：

I read the oneDNN code， that seams cblas_gemm_s8s8s32（） is not implemented，just cblas_gemm_s8u8s32，why？

Because ISA of intel （AVX2？）has not special instructions that can execute multiplying or adding  operation when the two vectors have the same data type (either s8/s8 or u8/u8)？

 

Thank you！

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Gennady_F_Intel
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‎04-16-2020 09:10 PM
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Yes, mkl provides cblas_gemm_s8u8s32 API only as there are no specific instructions to perform s8s8s32 operations. The latest CPU contains vpmaddubsw instruction which supports only s8u8s32.

 

 

 

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