Improves 2d tiled matmulnbits by repeating A, loads N times for each …

…B load

onnxruntime/contrib_ops/webgpu/quantization/matmul_nbits.cc

@@ -334,11 +334,13 @@ Status MatMulNBitsProgramPrefill::GenerateShaderCode(ShaderHelper& shader) const
   // Note in matmulnbits, B matrix is already transposed, however the following remains true
   // for the shader below M describes A, N describes B and K is the hidden/shared dimension.
   // K4/K8 are simply K divided by 4 or 8 respectively.
+  // A_REPEAT, number of times each workgroup reloads A sharing B.
   shader.AdditionalImplementation() << R"INIT_SECTION(
 // Matrix dimensions and quantization parameters
 const TILE_SIZE : u32 = 16u;
 const VALUES_PER_VEC4 : u32 = 4u;
 const QUANTIZATION_BLOCK_SIZE : u32 = 32;
+const A_REPEAT : u32 = 8u;
 // We want INNER_DIMENSION_ITEMS_PER_CYCLE to be the number of lanes in an EU/SM,
 // so we use BLOCKS_PER_CYCLE as 2u, or process weights 2 blocks at a time.
 // This uses all 16 lanes on 12th gen intel chips.
@@ -349,13 +351,10 @@ const VECTORIZED_QUANTIZATION_BLOCK_SIZE: u32 = 8u; // QUANTIZATION_BLOCK_SIZE /
 //Shared memory
 var<workgroup> tile_A : array<array<input_a_value_t, INNER_DIMENSION_ITEMS_PER_CYCLE>, TILE_SIZE>;
 var<workgroup> tile_B : array<array<input_a_value_t, INNER_DIMENSION_ITEMS_PER_CYCLE>, TILE_SIZE>;
-var<workgroup> tile_O : array<array<output_value_t, TILE_SIZE>, TILE_SIZE>;
+var<workgroup> tile_O : array<array<output_value_t, TILE_SIZE>, TILE_SIZE * A_REPEAT>;
 
 fn loadA(slot: u32, a_global : u32, step_idx : u32, parallel_id : u32)
 {
-    if (a_global >= uniforms.M) {
-        return;
-    }
     let local_A = input_a[a_global*uniforms.K4+step_idx*INNER_DIMENSION_ITEMS_PER_CYCLE+parallel_id];
     tile_A[slot][parallel_id] = local_A;
 }
@@ -417,21 +416,36 @@ fn computeDotProduct(slot_a: u32, slot_b:u32)  -> output_value_t
   // a single wave in this approach of indexing.
   let idx = u32(local_idx / TILE_SIZE);
   let idy = u32(local_idx % TILE_SIZE);
-  let a_global_base = workgroup_id.x * TILE_SIZE;
+  let a_global_base = workgroup_id.x * TILE_SIZE * A_REPEAT;
   let b_global_base = workgroup_id.y * TILE_SIZE;
   let step_count:u32 = u32(uniforms.K/(BLOCKS_PER_CYCLE*QUANTIZATION_BLOCK_SIZE));
   for (var vec_step:u32 = 0; vec_step < step_count; vec_step++)
   {
     workgroupBarrier();
-    loadA(idx, a_global_base+idx, vec_step, idy);
     loadB(idx, b_global_base+idx, vec_step, idy);
     workgroupBarrier();
-    let result = computeDotProduct(idx, idy);
-    tile_O[idx][idy]+=result;
+    for (var repeat_offset:u32=0; repeat_offset<A_REPEAT*TILE_SIZE; repeat_offset+=TILE_SIZE)
+    {
+      let a_global = a_global_base+idx+repeat_offset;
+      if (a_global < uniforms.M)
+      {
+        loadA(idx, a_global_base+idx+repeat_offset, vec_step, idy);
+        let result = computeDotProduct(idx, idy);
+        tile_O[idx+repeat_offset][idy]+=result;
+      }
+    }
   }
   workgroupBarrier();
   if (a_global_base+idx < uniforms.M && b_global_base+idy < uniforms.N) {
-    output[(a_global_base+idx) * uniforms.N + b_global_base + idy] = tile_O[idx][idy];
+    for (var a_repeat:u32=0; a_repeat<A_REPEAT; a_repeat++)
+    {
+      let ridx = a_repeat * TILE_SIZE + idx;
+      let a_global = a_global_base+ridx;
+      if (a_global < uniforms.M)
+      {
+        output[(a_global) * uniforms.N + b_global_base + idy] = tile_O[ridx][idy];
+      }
+    }
   }
 )MAIN_FN";
   return Status::OK();
@@ -486,8 +500,13 @@ Status MatMulNBits::ComputeInternal(onnxruntime::webgpu::ComputeContext& context
     // MatMulNBitsProgramPrefill does not use any of the subgroup wgsl instructions. The subgroup
     // size just helps with optimal lane usage in the shader.
     constexpr int32_t subgroup_size = 16;
+    // How many times each workgroup reloads A sharing B. This is tuneable,
+    // 8 produces a good performance for sequence length of 256/512, 16 will give
+    // slightly better performance for seqeengths of 1024.
+    // Note: This should match A_REPEAT in the shader.
+    constexpr unsigned int kMatMulPrefillARepeat = 8;
     program.SetWorkgroupSize(tile_size * subgroup_size);
-    program.SetDispatchGroupSize((M + tile_size - 1) / tile_size,
+    program.SetDispatchGroupSize((M + (tile_size * kMatMulPrefillARepeat) - 1) / (tile_size * kMatMulPrefillARepeat),
                                  (N + tile_size - 1) / tile_size,
                                  1);
     program