Proposal: add top-level wrapper Makefiles to a few benchmarks whose builds live in a subdirectory

[maarquitos14]

We're working through the HIP benchmarks against a TheRock-based ROCm install and have noticed a small inconsistency I'd like to discuss before drafting PRs.

The vast majority of benchmarks expose a top-level Makefile so that make, make clean, and make run work directly from src/<benchmark>/. A small subset doesn't — their actual Makefile (or CMakeLists.txt) lives in a subdirectory:

Benchmark	Build entry point
daphne-hip	src/points2image/Makefile
hpl-hip	src/hpl-2.3/Makefile
local-ht-hip	src/Makefile
logic-resim-hip	Simulation/Makefile
mf-sgd-hip	src/Makefile
miniFE-hip	src/Makefile
si-hip	CMakeLists.txt (only)
snicit-hip	bin/Makefile
tgvnn-hip	src/Makefile

That makes them awkward to drive from a generic build script — every consumer has to special-case the subdirectory per benchmark, or maintain a local wrapper-Makefile workaround. We're currently doing the latter, but it'd be nice to align with the rest of the repo.

Proposal

Add a small wrapper Makefile at the benchmark root for each of these 9. Each is ~10 lines, no functional changes — just delegates all, clean, and run to the existing inner build. Example for local-ht-hip:

HIP_ARCH ?= gfx906

.PHONY: all clean run

all:
	$(MAKE) -C src HIP_ARCH=$(HIP_ARCH)

clean:
	$(MAKE) -C src clean

run:
	$(MAKE) -C src run

si-hip would invoke cmake instead of $(MAKE) -C (it has no inner Makefile), but follows the same shape: thin top-level wrapper, build artifacts stay where the inner build puts them, no behavior change for anyone who was already invoking the inner build directly.

Ask

Would you be open to a PR (or per-benchmark PRs — your call on granularity) adding these wrappers? Happy to handle review feedback on the wrapper template; we'd just like to confirm the direction is welcome before drafting the patches.

[zjin-lcf]

I think the wrappers will make evaluation/test easier. Thank you for listing the related benchmarks in a table. I look forward to your PR(s).