Optimizations to smearing interface #1444
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I have been computing two-link smearing with QUDA and have made two optimizations to the smearing interface:
lib/milc_interface.cpp
, skip the call toloadGaugeQuda
if theuseResidentGauge
flag is set (since in this case, the 2-link field is already computed)performTwoLinkGaussianSmearNStep
inlib/interface_quda.cpp
to a single operationI have tested that this agrees with the previous implementation (using QUDA driven by MILC on a single GPU), and overall these changes increase performance by a factor of about 2 in our project.