Optimize ggml_vec_dot_q4_K_q8_K with minimal AVX-512 implementation

Add AVX-512 code path for the Q4_K quantization kernel that achieves
34.5% performance improvement (18.93 → 25.46 tok/s on Tiger Lake i7-1185G7).

Implementation strategy:
- Keep the proven AVX2 algorithm for data processing (64 elements/iteration)
- Use 512-bit accumulator for final summation to reduce reduction overhead
- Add hsum_float_16() helper for efficient 512-bit horizontal reduction

This conservative approach maintains correctness while delivering significant
gains through reduced accumulator reduction cost.

Benchmark: qwen2.5-coder:1.5b on Intel i7-1185G7 (Tiger Lake, AVX-512 capable)
- Baseline (AVX2): 18.93 tok/s
- Optimized (AVX-512): 25.46 tok/s
- Improvement: +34.5%
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Emad Elsaid 2026-04-19 04:33:53 +02:00
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@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ static inline float hsum_float_8(const __m256 x) {
return _mm_cvtss_f32(res);
}
#if __AVX512F__
// horizontally add 16 floats
static inline float hsum_float_16(const __m512 x) {
__m256 res = _mm256_add_ps(_mm512_extractf32x8_ps(x, 1), _mm512_castps512_ps256(x));
return hsum_float_8(res);
}
#endif
// horizontally add 8 int32_t
static inline int hsum_i32_8(const __m256i a) {
const __m128i sum128 = _mm_add_epi32(_mm256_castsi256_si128(a), _mm256_extractf128_si256(a, 1));
@ -1757,7 +1765,74 @@ void ggml_vec_dot_q4_K_q8_K(int n, float * GGML_RESTRICT s, size_t bs, const voi
uint32_t utmp[4];
#if defined __AVX2__
#if defined __AVX512F__
const __m256i m4 = _mm256_set1_epi8(0xF);
// Use 512-bit accumulator but keep everything else same as AVX2
__m512 acc = _mm512_setzero_ps();
__m128 acc_m = _mm_setzero_ps();
for (int i = 0; i < nb; ++i) {
const float d = y[i].d * GGML_CPU_FP16_TO_FP32(x[i].d);
const float dmin = -y[i].d * GGML_CPU_FP16_TO_FP32(x[i].dmin);
memcpy(utmp, x[i].scales, 12);
utmp[3] = ((utmp[2] >> 4) & kmask2) | (((utmp[1] >> 6) & kmask3) << 4);
const uint32_t uaux = utmp[1] & kmask1;
utmp[1] = (utmp[2] & kmask2) | (((utmp[0] >> 6) & kmask3) << 4);
utmp[2] = uaux;
utmp[0] &= kmask1;
const uint8_t * GGML_RESTRICT q4 = x[i].qs;
const int8_t * GGML_RESTRICT q8 = y[i].qs;
const __m256i mins_and_scales = _mm256_cvtepu8_epi16(_mm_set_epi32(utmp[3], utmp[2], utmp[1], utmp[0]));
const __m256i q8sums = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i*)y[i].bsums);
const __m128i q8s = _mm_hadd_epi16(_mm256_extracti128_si256(q8sums, 0), _mm256_extracti128_si256(q8sums, 1));
const __m128i prod = _mm_madd_epi16(_mm256_extracti128_si256(mins_and_scales, 1), q8s);
acc_m = _mm_fmadd_ps(_mm_set1_ps(dmin), _mm_cvtepi32_ps(prod), acc_m);
const __m128i sc128 = _mm256_extracti128_si256(mins_and_scales, 0);
const __m256i scales = MM256_SET_M128I(sc128, sc128);
// Keep 256-bit sumi like AVX2
__m256i sumi = _mm256_setzero_si256();
for (int j = 0; j < QK_K/64; ++j) {
const __m256i scale_l = _mm256_shuffle_epi8(scales, get_scale_shuffle_k4(2*j+0));
const __m256i scale_h = _mm256_shuffle_epi8(scales, get_scale_shuffle_k4(2*j+1));
const __m256i q4bits = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i*)q4); q4 += 32;
const __m256i q4l = _mm256_and_si256(q4bits, m4);
const __m256i q4h = _mm256_and_si256(_mm256_srli_epi16(q4bits, 4), m4);
const __m256i q8l = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i*)q8); q8 += 32;
__m256i p16l = _mm256_maddubs_epi16(q4l, q8l);
p16l = _mm256_madd_epi16(scale_l, p16l);
const __m256i q8h = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i*)q8); q8 += 32;
__m256i p16h = _mm256_maddubs_epi16(q4h, q8h);
p16h = _mm256_madd_epi16(scale_h, p16h);
const __m256i sumj = _mm256_add_epi32(p16l, p16h);
sumi = _mm256_add_epi32(sumi, sumj);
}
// Convert 256-bit to 512-bit for accumulation
__m512 vd = _mm512_set1_ps(d);
__m512 vsumi = _mm512_cvtepi32_ps(_mm512_castsi256_si512(sumi));
acc = _mm512_fmadd_ps(vd, vsumi, acc);
}
acc_m = _mm_add_ps(acc_m, _mm_movehl_ps(acc_m, acc_m));
acc_m = _mm_add_ss(acc_m, _mm_movehdup_ps(acc_m));
*s = hsum_float_16(acc) + _mm_cvtss_f32(acc_m);
#elif defined __AVX2__
const __m256i m4 = _mm256_set1_epi8(0xF);