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tensorflow/core/kernels/resize_bilinear_op_gpu.cu.cc

@@ -25,12 +25,78 @@ limitations under the License.
 #include "tensorflow/core/platform/types.h"
 #include "tensorflow/core/util/gpu_kernel_helper.h"
 
+// auxilary 16-byte datatype for ResizeBilinearKernel_faster
+// the fields are not important. The only purpose of this is to read 16 bytes
+// from GPU gloal memory
+struct four_floats{
+  float a;
+  float b;
+  float c;
+  float d;
+};
+
 namespace tensorflow {
 
 typedef Eigen::GpuDevice GPUDevice;
 
 namespace {
 
+template <typename T, int C_UNROLL>
+__global__ void ResizeBilinearKernel_faster(const int num_channel_thread, const T* __restrict__ images,
+                                     float height_scale, float width_scale,
+                                     int batch, int in_height, int in_width,
+                                     int channels, int out_height,
+                                     int out_width, float* __restrict__ output) {
+
+  for (int out_idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; out_idx < out_width*out_height*num_channel_per_thread; out_idx += blockDim.x * gridDim.x){
+    int idx = out_idx;
+    const int c_start = idx % num_channel_thread;
+    idx /= num_channel_thread;
+    const int x = idx % out_width;
+    idx /= out_width;
+    const int y = idx % out_height;
+
+    const float in_y = (static_cast<float>(y) + 0.5f) * height_scale - 0.5f;
+
+    const int top_y_index = in_y > 0.0 ? floorf(in_y) : 0;
+    const int bottom_y_index =
+        (in_y < in_height - 1) ? ceilf(in_y) : in_height - 1;
+    const float y_lerp = in_y - floorf(in_y);
+
+    const float in_x = (static_cast<float>(x) + 0.5f) * width_scale - 0.5f;
+    const int left_x_index = in_x > 0.0 ? floorf(in_x) : 0;
+    const int right_x_index =
+        (in_x < in_width - 1) ? ceilf(in_x) : in_width - 1;
+    const float x_lerp = in_x - left_x_index;
+
+
+    float top_left_reg[C_UNROLL];
+    float top_right_reg[C_UNROLL];
+    float bottom_left_reg[C_UNROLL];
+    float bottom_right_reg[C_UNROLL];
+    float out_reg[C_UNROLL];
+    for (int b =0; b < batch; b++) {
+      for (int c = c_start*C_UNROLL; c < channels; c+= C_UNROLL*num_channel_per_thread) {
+
+        // 16 byte read from global memroy and cache them in registers
+        ((four_floats*) top_left_reg)[0] = ((four_floats*) images)[(((b * in_height + top_y_index) * in_width + left_x_index) * channels + c)/4 ];
+        ((four_floats*) top_right_reg)[0] = ((four_floats*) images)[(((b * in_height + top_y_index) * in_width + right_x_index) * channels + c)/4];
+        ((four_floats*) bottom_left_reg)[0] = ((four_floats*) images)[(((b * in_height + bottom_y_index) * in_width + left_x_index) * channels + c)/4];
+        ((four_floats*) bottom_right_reg)[0] = ((four_floats*) images)[(((b * in_height + bottom_y_index) * in_width + right_x_index) * channels +c)/4];
+#pragma unroll
+        for (int unroll = 0; unroll < C_UNROLL; unroll+=1){
+          const float top = top_left_reg[unroll] + (top_right_reg[unroll] - top_left_reg[unroll]) * x_lerp;
+          const float bottom = bottom_left_reg[unroll] + (bottom_right_reg[unroll] - bottom_left_reg[unroll]) * x_lerp;
+          out_reg[unroll] = top + (bottom - top) * y_lerp;
+        }
+        ((four_floats*) output)[(((b *out_height + y) * out_width + x) * channels + c)/4] = ((four_floats*) out_reg)[0];
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+
+
 template <typename T>
 __global__ void ResizeBilinearKernel(const int32 nthreads, const T* images,
                                      float height_scale, float width_scale,
@@ -278,23 +344,55 @@ struct ResizeBilinear<GPUDevice, T> {
     const int total_count = batch * out_height * out_width * channels;
     if (total_count == 0) return;
 
-    CudaLaunchConfig config = GetCudaLaunchConfig(total_count, d);
+    // ResizeBilinearKernel_faster is 30 ~ 50% faster than ResizeBilinearKernel
-    if (half_pixel_centers) {
+    // but can only be used when channels is multiple of 4 and size of input
+    // elemnt is the same as float
+    if (channels % 4 == 0 && sizeof(float) == sizeof(T) && half_pixel_centers) {
+      // since each thread reads 16 bytes, and we need at most 8 of such threads
+      // to make the full use of 128 bytes of global memroy read & write
+      const int channel_per_thread = 16 / sizeof(float);
+
+      // since each global memroy read from L1 cahce is 128 bytes, and each thread
+      // reads 16 bytes, we need 8 threads to fully coalesce 128 bytes of read & store
+      const int max_num_channel_thread = 8;
+
+      // number of threads that will iterate through the channel dimension
+      const int num_channel_thread = std::min(max_num_channel_per_thread,
+                                              num_channels/channel_per_thread);
+
+      GpuLaunchConfig config = GetCudaLaunchConfig(out_height * out_width *
+                                                   num_channel_thread, d);
+
+      TF_CHECK_OK(CudaLaunchKernel(
+        ResizeBilinearKernel_faster<T, channel_per_thread>,
+        config.block_count, config.thread_per_block, 0, d.stream(),
+        num_channel_thread, images.data(), height_scale, width_scale, batch,
+        in_height, in_width, channels, out_height, out_width, output.data()));
+    }
+    else {
+      GpuLaunchConfig config = GetCudaLaunchConfig(total_count, d);
+
+      if (half_pixel_centers) {
       TF_CHECK_OK(CudaLaunchKernel(
           ResizeBilinearKernel<T>, config.block_count, config.thread_per_block,
           0, d.stream(), config.virtual_thread_count, images.data(),
           height_scale, width_scale, batch, in_height, in_width, channels,
           out_height, out_width, output.data()));
-    } else {
+
-      TF_CHECK_OK(CudaLaunchKernel(
+      } else {
-          LegacyResizeBilinearKernel<T>, config.block_count,
+        TF_CHECK_OK(CudaLaunchKernel(
-          config.thread_per_block, 0, d.stream(), config.virtual_thread_count,
+            LegacyResizeBilinearKernel<T>, config.block_count,
-          images.data(), height_scale, width_scale, batch, in_height, in_width,
+            config.thread_per_block, 0, d.stream(), config.virtual_thread_count,
-          channels, out_height, out_width, output.data()));
+            images.data(), height_scale, width_scale, batch, in_height, in_width,
+            channels, out_height, out_width, output.data()));
+      }
     }
+
   }
 };
 
+
+
 // Partial specialization of ResizeBilinearGrad functor for a GPUDevice.
 template <typename T>
 struct ResizeBilinearGrad<GPUDevice, T> {
@@ -312,19 +410,19 @@ struct ResizeBilinearGrad<GPUDevice, T> {
     const int resized_width = input_grad.dimension(2);
 
     int total_count;
-    CudaLaunchConfig config;
+    GpuLaunchConfig config;
 
     // Initialize output_grad with all zeros.
     total_count = batch * original_height * original_width * channels;
     if (total_count == 0) return;
-    config = GetCudaLaunchConfig(total_count, d);
+    config = GetGpuLaunchConfig(total_count, d);
     TF_CHECK_OK(CudaLaunchKernel(
         SetZero<T>, config.block_count, config.thread_per_block, 0, d.stream(),
         config.virtual_thread_count, output_grad.data()));
 
     // Accumulate.
     total_count = batch * resized_height * resized_width * channels;
-    config = GetCudaLaunchConfig(total_count, d);
+    config = GetGpuLaunchConfig(total_count, d);
     if (half_pixel_centers) {
       TF_CHECK_OK(CudaLaunchKernel(
           ResizeBilinearGradKernel<T>, config.block_count,