Build Options {#dev_guide_build_options} ==================================== oneDNN supports the following build-time options. | CMake Option | Supported values (defaults in bold) | Description | |:--------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ONEDNN_LIBRARY_TYPE | **SHARED**, STATIC | Defines the resulting library type | | ONEDNN_CPU_RUNTIME | NONE, **OMP**, TBB, SEQ, THREADPOOL, SYCL | Defines the threading runtime for CPU engines | | ONEDNN_GPU_RUNTIME | **NONE**, OCL, SYCL | Defines the offload runtime for GPU engines | | ONEDNN_BUILD_DOC | **ON**, OFF | Controls building the documentation | | ONEDNN_BUILD_EXAMPLES | **ON**, OFF | Controls building the examples | | ONEDNN_BUILD_TESTS | **ON**, OFF | Controls building the tests | | ONEDNN_BUILD_GRAPH | **ON**, OFF | Controls building graph component | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_GRAPH_DUMP | ON, **OFF** | Controls dumping graph artifacts | | ONEDNN_EXPERIMENTAL_GRAPH_COMPILER_BACKEND | ON, **OFF** | Enables the [graph compiler backend](@ref dev_guide_graph_compiler) of the graph component (experimental)| | ONEDNN_ARCH_OPT_FLAGS | *compiler flags* | Specifies compiler optimization flags (see warning note below) | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_CONCURRENT_EXEC | ON, **OFF** | Disables sharing a common scratchpad between primitives in #dnnl::scratchpad_mode::library mode | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_JIT_PROFILING | **ON**, OFF | Enables [integration with performance profilers](@ref dev_guide_profilers) | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_ITT_TASKS | **ON**, OFF | Enables [integration with performance profilers](@ref dev_guide_profilers) | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE_CACHE | **ON**, OFF | Enables [primitive cache](@ref dev_guide_primitive_cache) | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_MAX_CPU_ISA | **ON**, OFF | Enables [CPU dispatcher controls](@ref dev_guide_cpu_dispatcher_control) | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_CPU_ISA_HINTS | **ON**, OFF | Enables [CPU ISA hints](@ref dev_guide_cpu_isa_hints) | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_WORKLOAD | **TRAINING**, INFERENCE | Specifies a set of functionality to be available based on workload | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE | **ALL**, PRIMITIVE_NAME | Specifies a set of functionality to be available based on primitives | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE_CPU_ISA | **ALL**, CPU_ISA_NAME | Specifies a set of functionality to be available for CPU backend based on CPU ISA | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE_GPU_ISA | **ALL**, GPU_ISA_NAME | Specifies a set of functionality to be available for GPU backend based on GPU ISA | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_GEMM_KERNELS_ISA | **ALL**, NONE, ISA_NAME | Specifies a set of functionality to be available for GeMM kernels for CPU backend based on ISA | | ONEDNN_EXPERIMENTAL | ON, **OFF** | Enables [experimental features](@ref dev_guide_experimental) | | ONEDNN_VERBOSE | **ON**, OFF | Enables [verbose mode](@ref dev_guide_verbose) | | ONEDNN_DEV_MODE | ON, **OFF** | Enables internal tracing and `debuginfo` logging in verbose output (for oneDNN developers) | | ONEDNN_AARCH64_USE_ACL | ON, **OFF** | Enables integration with Arm Compute Library for AArch64 builds | | ONEDNN_BLAS_VENDOR | **NONE**, ARMPL, ACCELERATE | Defines an external BLAS library to link to for GEMM-like operations | | ONEDNN_GPU_VENDOR | NONE, **INTEL**, NVIDIA, AMD | When DNNL_GPU_RUNTIME is not NONE defines GPU vendor for GPU engines otherwise its value is NONE| | ONEDNN_DPCPP_HOST_COMPILER | **DEFAULT**, *GNU or Clang C++ compiler executable* | Specifies host compiler executable for SYCL runtime | | ONEDNN_LIBRARY_NAME | **dnnl**, *library name* | Specifies name of the library | | ONEDNN_TEST_SET | SMOKE, **CI**, NIGHTLY, MODIFIER_NAME | Specifies the testing coverage enabled through the generated testing targets | All building options listed support their counterparts with `DNNL` prefix instead of `ONEDNN`. `DNNL` options would take precedence over `ONEDNN` versions, if both versions are specified. `ONEDNN_BUILD_DOC`, `ONEDNN_BUILD_EXAMPLES` and `ONEDNN_BUILD_TESTS` are disabled by default when oneDNN is built as a sub-project. All other building options or values that can be found in CMake files are intended for development/debug purposes and are subject to change without notice. Please avoid using them. ## Common options ### Host compiler When building oneDNN with oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler user can specify a custom host compiler. The host compiler is a compiler that will be used by the main compiler driver to perform host compilation step. The host compiler can be specified with `ONEDNN_DPCPP_HOST_COMPILER` CMake option. It should be specified either by name (in this case, the standard system environment variables will be used to discover it) or an absolute path to the compiler executable. The default value of `ONEDNN_DPCPP_HOST_COMPILER` is `DEFAULT`, which is the default host compiler used by the compiler specified with `CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER`. The `DEFAULT` host compiler is the only supported option on Windows. On Linux, user can specify a GNU C++ compiler as the host compiler. @warning oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler requires host compiler to be compatible. The minimum allowed GNU C++ compiler version is 7.4.0. See [GCC* Compatibility and Interoperability](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/dpcpp-cpp-compiler/developer-guide-reference/current/gcc-compatibility-and-interoperability.html) section in oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler Developer Guide. @warning The minimum allowed Clang C++ compiler version is 8.0.0. ### Configuring functionality Using `ONEDNN_ENABLE_WORKLOAD` and `ONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE` it is possible to limit functionality available in the final shared object or statically linked application. This helps to reduce the amount of disk space occupied by an app. #### ONEDNN_ENABLE_WORKLOAD This option supports only two values: `TRAINING` (the default) and `INFERENCE`. `INFERENCE` enables only forward propagation kind part of functionality, removing all backward-related functionality, except those which are dependencies for forward propagation kind part. #### ONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE This option supports several values: `ALL` (the default) which enables all primitives implementations or a set of `BATCH_NORMALIZATION`, `BINARY`, `CONCAT`, `CONVOLUTION`, `DECONVOLUTION`, `ELTWISE`, `INNER_PRODUCT`, `LAYER_NORMALIZATION`, `LRN`, `MATMUL`, `POOLING`, `PRELU`, `REDUCTION`, `REORDER`, `RESAMPLING`, `RNN`, `SDPA`, `SHUFFLE`, `SOFTMAX`, `SUM`. When a set is used, only those selected primitives implementations will be available. Attempting to use other primitive implementations will end up returning an unimplemented status when creating primitive descriptor. In order to specify a set, a CMake-style string should be used, with semicolon delimiters, as in this example: ``` -DONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE=CONVOLUTION;MATMUL;REORDER ``` #### ONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE_CPU_ISA This option supports several values: `ALL` (the default) which enables all ISA implementations or one of `SSE41`, `AVX2`, `AVX512`, and `AMX`. Values are linearly ordered as `SSE41` < `AVX2` < `AVX512` < `AMX`. When specified, selected ISA and all ISA that are "smaller" will be available. When specified, [CPU dispatcher controls](@ref dev_guide_cpu_dispatcher_control) are also affected in compliance with the option. Note that `AVX2` denotes whole AVX2-based family ISAs, `AVX512` denotes whole AVX512-based family ISAs, as well as `AMX` denotes any ISA containing AMX unit. Example that enables SSE41 and AVX2 sets: ``` -DONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE_CPU_ISA=AVX2 ``` #### ONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE_GPU_ISA This option supports several values: `ALL` (the default) which enables all ISA implementations or any set of `GEN9`, `GEN11`, `XELP`, `XEHP`, `XEHPG`, `XEHPC`, `XE2`, and `XE3`. Selected ISA will enable correspondent parts in just-in-time kernel generation based implementations. OpenCL based kernels and implementations will always be available. Example that enables XeLP and XeHP set: ``` -DONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE_GPU_ISA=XELP;XEHP ``` #### ONEDNN_ENABLE_GEMM_KERNELS_ISA This option supports several values: `ALL` (the default) which enables all ISA kernels from x64/gemm folder, `NONE` which disables all kernels and removes correspondent interfaces, or one of `SSE41`, `AVX2`, and `AVX512`. Values are linearly ordered as `SSE41` < `AVX2` < `AVX512`. When specified, selected ISA and all ISA that are "smaller" will be available. Example that leaves SSE41 and AVX2 sets, but removes AVX512 and AMX kernels: ``` -DONEDNN_ENABLE_GEMM_KERNELS_ISA=AVX2 ``` ### Configuring testing #### ONEDNN_TEST_SET This option specifies testing coverage enabled through testing targets generated by the build system. The variable consists of two parts: the set value which defines the number of test cases, and the modifiers for testing commands. The final string must contain a single value for a set and as many compatible values for modifiers. The set value is defined by one of: `SMOKE`, `CI`, or `NIGHTLY`. The modifier values (referred as `MODIFIER_NAME`) are one of: `NO_CORR`, `ADD_BITWISE`. The input is expected in the CMake list style - a semicolon separated string - e.g., `ONEDNN_TEST_SET=CI;NO_CORR`. When `SMOKE` value is specified, it enables a short set of test cases which verifies that basic library functionality works as expected. When `CI` value is specified, it enables a regular set of test cases which verifies that all library supported functionality works as expected. When `NIGHTLY` value is specified, it enables the largest set of test cases which verifies that all library supported functionality and all kernel optimizations work as expected. When `NO_CORR` modifier value is specified, it removes correctness validation, which is set by default, from benchdnn testing targets. It helps to save time when correctness validation is not necessary. When `ADD_BITWISE` modifier value is specified, the build system will add an additional set of tests with a bitwise validation mode for benchdnn. The correctness set remains unmodified. ## CPU Options Intel Architecture Processors and compatible devices are supported by oneDNN CPU engine. The CPU engine is built by default but can be disabled at build time by setting `ONEDNN_CPU_RUNTIME` to `NONE`. In this case, GPU engine must be enabled. ### Targeting Specific Architecture oneDNN uses JIT code generation to implement most of its functionality and will choose the best code based on detected processor features. However, some oneDNN functionality will still benefit from targeting a specific processor architecture at build time. You can use `ONEDNN_ARCH_OPT_FLAGS` CMake option for this. For Intel(R) C++ Compilers, the default option is `-xSSE4.1`, which instructs the compiler to generate the code for the processors that support SSE4.1 instructions. This option would not allow you to run the library on older processor architectures. For GNU\* Compilers and Clang, the default option is `-msse4.1`. @warning While use of `ONEDNN_ARCH_OPT_FLAGS` option gives better performance, the resulting library can be run only on systems that have instruction set compatible with the target instruction set. Therefore, `ARCH_OPT_FLAGS` should be set to an empty string (`""`) if the resulting library needs to be portable. ### Runtimes CPU engine can use OpenMP, Threading Building Blocks (TBB) or sequential threading runtimes. OpenMP threading is the default build mode. This behavior is controlled by the `ONEDNN_CPU_RUNTIME` CMake option. #### OpenMP oneDNN uses OpenMP runtime library provided by the compiler. When building oneDNN with oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler the library will link to Intel OpenMP runtime. This behavior can be changed by changing the host compiler with `ONEDNN_DPCPP_HOST_COMPILER` option. @warning Because different OpenMP runtimes may not be binary-compatible, it's important to ensure that only one OpenMP runtime is used throughout the application. Having more than one OpenMP runtime linked to an executable may lead to undefined behavior including incorrect results or crashes. However as long as both the library and the application use the same or compatible compilers there would be no conflicts. #### Threading Building Blocks (TBB) To build oneDNN with TBB support, set `ONEDNN_CPU_RUNTIME` to `TBB`: ~~~sh $ cmake -DONEDNN_CPU_RUNTIME=TBB .. ~~~ Optionally, set the `TBBROOT` environmental variable to point to the TBB installation path or pass the path directly to CMake: ~~~sh $ cmake -DONEDNN_CPU_RUNTIME=TBB -DTBBROOT=/opt/intel/path/tbb .. ~~~ oneDNN has functional limitations if built with TBB: * Winograd convolution algorithm is not supported for fp32 backward by data and backward by weights propagation. #### Threadpool To build oneDNN with support for threadpool threading, set `ONEDNN_CPU_RUNTIME` to `THREADPOOL` ~~~sh $ cmake -DONEDNN_CPU_RUNTIME=THREADPOOL .. ~~~ The `_ONEDNN_TEST_THREADPOOL_IMPL` CMake variable controls which of the three threadpool implementations would be used for testing: `STANDALONE`, `TBB`, or `EIGEN`. The latter two require also passing `TBBROOT` or `Eigen3_DIR` paths to CMake. For example: ~~~sh $ cmake -DONEDNN_CPU_RUNTIME=THREADPOOL -D_ONEDNN_TEST_THREADPOOL_IMPL=EIGEN -DEigen3_DIR=/path/to/eigen/share/eigen3/cmake .. ~~~ Threadpool threading support is experimental and has the same limitations as TBB plus more: * As threadpools are attached to streams which are only passed during primitive execution, work decomposition is performed statically at the primitive creation time. At the primitive execution time, the threadpool is responsible for balancing the static decomposition from the previous item across available worker threads. ### AArch64 Options oneDNN includes experimental support for Arm 64-bit Architecture (AArch64). By default, AArch64 builds will use the reference implementations throughout. The following options enable the use of AArch64 optimised implementations for a limited number of operations, provided by AArch64 libraries. | AArch64 build configuration | CMake Option | Environment variables | Dependencies | |:-------------------------------------|:--------------------------|:-----------------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Arm Compute Library based primitives | ONEDNN_AARCH64_USE_ACL=ON | ACL_ROOT_DIR=** | [Arm Compute Library](https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary) | | Vendor BLAS library support | ONEDNN_BLAS_VENDOR=ARMPL | None | [Arm Performance Libraries](https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/server-and-hpc/downloads/arm-performance-libraries) | #### Arm Compute Library Arm Compute Library is an open-source library for machine learning applications. The development repository is available from [mlplatform.org](https://review.mlplatform.org/#/admin/projects/ml/ComputeLibrary), and releases are also available on [GitHub](https://github.com/ARM-software/ComputeLibrary). The `ONEDNN_AARCH64_USE_ACL` CMake option is used to enable Compute Library integration: ~~~sh $ cmake -DONEDNN_AARCH64_USE_ACL=ON .. ~~~ This assumes that the environment variable `ACL_ROOT_DIR` is set to the location of Arm Compute Library, which must be downloaded and built independently of oneDNN. @warning For a debug build of oneDNN it is advisable to specify a Compute Library build which has also been built with debug enabled. @warning oneDNN only supports builds with Compute Library v23.11 or later. #### Vendor BLAS libraries oneDNN can use a standard BLAS library for GEMM operations. The `ONEDNN_BLAS_VENDOR` build option controls BLAS library selection, and defaults to `NONE`. For AArch64 builds with GCC, use the [Arm Performance Libraries](https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/server-and-hpc/downloads/arm-performance-libraries): ~~~sh $ cmake -DONEDNN_BLAS_VENDOR=ARMPL .. ~~~ Additional options available for development/debug purposes. These options are subject to change without notice, see [`cmake/options.cmake`](https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneDNN/blob/master/cmake/options.cmake) for details. ## GPU Options Intel Processor Graphics is supported by oneDNN GPU engine. GPU engine is disabled in the default build configuration. ### Runtimes To enable GPU support you need to specify the GPU runtime by setting `ONEDNN_GPU_RUNTIME` CMake option. The default value is `"NONE"` which corresponds to no GPU support in the library. #### OpenCL\* OpenCL runtime requires Intel(R) SDK for OpenCL\* applications. You can explicitly specify the path to the SDK using `-DOPENCLROOT` CMake option. ~~~sh $ cmake -DONEDNN_GPU_RUNTIME=OCL -DOPENCLROOT=/path/to/opencl/sdk .. ~~~ @anchor component_limitation ## Graph component limitations The graph component can be enabled via the build option `ONEDNN_BUILD_GRAPH`. But the build option does not work with some values of other build options. Specifying the options and values simultaneously in one build will lead to a CMake error. | CMake Option | Unsupported Values | |:------------------------|:-------------------| | ONEDNN_GPU_VENDOR | NVIDIA | | ONEDNN_ENABLE_PRIMITIVE | PRIMITIVE_NAME | ## Graph Compiler Backend Limitations As a backend of the graph component, besides the options described in [Graph component limitations](@ref component_limitation), graph compiler backend has some extra limitations. Specifying unsupported build options will lead to a CMake error. | CMake Option | Unsupported Values | | :-----------------------| :------------------| | ONEDNN_CPU_RUNTIME | THREADPOOL, SYCL | | ONEDNN_GPU_RUNTIME | OCL, SYCL | Besides, the instructions contained in the kernels generated by the graph compiler backend are [AVX512_CORE](@ref dev_guide_cpu_dispatcher_control) or above, so these kernels will not be dispatched on systems that do not have corresponding instruction sets support.