![]() ![]() Valhall replaces the compiler’s static scheduling with hardware dynamic scheduling, trading additional control hardware for higher average performance. ![]() ![]() Valhall linearizes Bifrost, removing the Very Long Instruction Word mechanisms of its predecessors. Bifrost scalarizes Midgard, transitioning away from the fixed 4-channel vector ( vec4) architecture of Utgard and Midgard to instead rely on warp-based execution for parallelism, better using the hardware on modern workloads. Midgard generalizes the Utgard pixel processor to support compute shaders by unifying the shader stages, adding general purpose memory access, and supporting integers of various bit sizes. It is implemented in the Arm® Mali™-G78, the most recently released Mali hardware, and Valhall will continue to be implemented in Mali products yet to come.Įach architecture represents a paradigm shift from the last. Valhall is the fourth Arm® Mali™ architecture and the fifth Mali instruction set. In tandem with the documentation, we’ve developed a Valhall assembler and disassembler as a reverse-engineering aid. The findings are summarized in an XML architecture description for machine consumption. After a month of reverse-engineering, we’re excited to release documentation on the Valhall instruction set, available as a PDF. ![]()
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