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Extend support for matrix inversion on CUDA devices
Reference issue
Fixes #2271 (closed) .
What does this implement/fix?
Extend the use of Eigen on NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA:
- mark over 1000 new functions as
EIGEN_DEVICE_FUNC - use
numext::swapinstead ofstd::swap - implement reading approximate cache sizes on NVIDIA GPUs
- support
alloca()on recent NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA versions
Additional information
Most of these changes are in use in the fork of Eigen maintained by the CMS Collaboration, which has been developed for porting our software on NVIDIA GPUs.
We'll be happy to squash/rebase/etc. the commits as needed, and/or split this into multiple requests.