Rename kernel arch finding function for dispatch

cpp/include/raft/distance/detail/fused_l2_nn.cuh

@@ -325,12 +325,13 @@ void fusedL2NNImpl(OutT* min,
                                 decltype(distance_op),
                                 decltype(fin_op)>;
 
-  // Get pointer to fp32 SIMT kernel to determine the runtime architecture of the
-  // current system. Other methods to determine the architecture (that do not
+  // Get pointer to fp32 SIMT kernel to determine the best compute architecture
+  // out of all for which the kernel was compiled for that matches closely
+  // to the current device. Other methods to determine the architecture (that do not
   // require a pointer) can be error prone. See:
   // https://github.com/NVIDIA/cub/issues/545
   void* kernel_ptr   = reinterpret_cast<void*>(kernel);
-  auto runtime_arch  = arch::kernel_runtime_arch(kernel_ptr);
+  auto runtime_arch  = arch::kernel_virtual_arch(kernel_ptr);
   auto cutlass_range = arch::SM_range(arch::SM_80(), arch::SM_future());
 
   if (cutlass_range.contains(runtime_arch)) {

cpp/include/raft/distance/detail/pairwise_matrix/dispatch-inl.cuh

@@ -108,13 +108,14 @@ void pairwise_matrix_dispatch(OpT distance_op,
     auto cutlass_range = arch::SM_range(arch::SM_80(), arch::SM_future());
     auto legacy_range  = arch::SM_range(arch::SM_min(), arch::SM_80());
 
-    // Get pointer to SM60 kernel to determine the runtime architecture of the
-    // current system. Other methods to determine the architecture (that do not
+    // Get pointer to SM60 kernel to determine the best compute architecture
+    // out of all for which the kernel was compiled for that matches closely
+    // to the current device. Other methods to determine the architecture (that do not
     // require a pointer) can be error prone. See:
     // https://github.com/NVIDIA/cub/issues/545
     auto sm60_wrapper = pairwise_matrix_sm60_get_wrapper(distance_op, params, legacy_range);
     void* kernel_ptr  = reinterpret_cast<void*>(sm60_wrapper.kernel_ptr);
-    auto runtime_arch = arch::kernel_runtime_arch(kernel_ptr);
+    auto runtime_arch = arch::kernel_virtual_arch(kernel_ptr);
 
     if (cutlass_range.contains(runtime_arch)) {
       // If device is SM_80 or later, use CUTLASS-based kernel.

cpp/include/raft/util/arch.cuh

@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ namespace raft::util::arch {
  *   compute architecture that a kernel is compiled with. It can only be used
  *   inside kernels with a template argument.
  *
- * - raft::util::arch::kernel_runtime_arch : a function that computes at *run-time*
- *   which version of a kernel will launch (i.e., it will return the compute
- *   architecture of the version of the kernel that will be launched by the
- *   driver).
+ * - raft::util::arch::kernel_virtual_arch : a function that computes at *run-time*
+ *   which version of a kernel will launch (i.e., it will return the virtual compute
+ *   architecture of the version of the kernel that it was compiled for which
+ *   will be launched by the driver).
  *
  * - raft::util::arch::SM_range : a compile-time value to represent an open interval
  *   of compute architectures. This can be used to check if the current
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ struct SM_compute_arch {
 // compute architecture of the version of the kernel that the driver picks when
 // the kernel runs.
 struct SM_runtime {
-  friend SM_runtime kernel_runtime_arch(void*);
+  friend SM_runtime kernel_virtual_arch(void*);
 
  private:
   const int _version;
@@ -107,15 +107,16 @@ struct SM_runtime {
   __host__ __device__ int value() const { return _version; }
 };
 
-// Computes which compute architecture of a kernel will run
+// Computes which virtual compute architecture the given kernel was compiled for,
+// driver picks the version of the kernel that closely matches the current hardware.
 //
 // Semantics are described above in the documentation of SM_runtime.
 //
 // This function requires a pointer to the kernel that will run. Other methods
 // to determine the architecture (that do not require a pointer) can be error
 // prone. See:
 // https://github.com/NVIDIA/cub/issues/545
-inline SM_runtime kernel_runtime_arch(void* kernel)
+inline SM_runtime kernel_virtual_arch(void* kernel)
 {
   cudaFuncAttributes attributes;
   RAFT_CUDA_TRY(cudaFuncGetAttributes(&attributes, kernel));