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perf(cuda): vectorize the deterministic all-gather copy and right-size its single-block path - #491
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…e its single-block path The all-gather payload copy (single-block fast kernel, fused stage+gather fast kernel, and the multi-block kernel) moved one byte per thread and recomputed the peer with a 64-bit division per byte. Gathers whose output fell in the single-block range (up to 256 KiB) took up to ~1.1 ms on 2 x B200 and ~1.7 ms on 8 x B200, versus ~45-70 us just above it. - copy_rank_ordered: resolve each peer's source/destination once and copy 16-byte vectors when both are aligned, with a byte-wise tail. Still a pure rank-ordered copy; results are byte-identical. - kAllGatherSingleBlockMaxBytes = 64 KiB: a one-block gather copies the whole output, so it only wins below ~64 KiB (measured crossover at 2 and 8 ranks). The reduction fast paths keep kSingleBlockFastPathMaxBytes. - tests/distributed/test_deterministic_all_gather_sizes.py: byte sizes across the threshold, odd tails, misaligned input/output, vs NCCL. - benchmarks/benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py: size sweep for the CUDA deterministic collectives with NCCL references. Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
… x B200 benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py reports for main (43f150f) and this change, all-gather figure (benchmarks/plot_deterministic_collectives.py) and a short report. 2-GPU runs share one machine; 8-GPU runs are on two nodes of the same type. Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
The per-peer copy left most threads idle on small per-peer payloads and serialised the peers' remote reads; on 8 x B200 a 64-192 KiB/rank gather was 8-14 us slower than the old byte loop on the multi-block path. With the output, the size and every peer payload 16-byte aligned, one flat vector index over all peers keeps every thread busy; the per-peer copy remains for misaligned pointers. Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
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- Line 111: Update the NCCL timing callbacks for dist.reduce_scatter_tensor and
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Preallocate NCCL reduction buffers and reset all-reduce inputs before each CUDA event interval. Bind benchmark callbacks to each size's tensors and reject mismatched world sizes or input sweeps before plotting. Add focused regressions, document benchmark helpers, and qualify historical NCCL reduction timings. Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
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The two actionable comments in review 5447550669 are fixed in b2d28f9, individually replied to, and resolved. The docstring coverage warning is addressed too: all 21 Python functions in the changed scripts/tests now have docstrings (verified by AST inspection). Existing CUDA helper documentation is unchanged. Validation: 8 CPU regressions passed; a fresh CUDA 13/sm100 build of the current collective source passed 38 distributed/transport tests on 2 B200 GPUs, with 1 existing eight-GPU test skipped. A two-GPU benchmark smoke run produced 12 valid timing rows across all four operations at 1/32/128 KiB per rank. The stored before/after reports still plot successfully. Black, isort, Ruff, and The historical report now explicitly identifies the original NCCL reduction timings as including per-call tensor cloning; those stored measurements are preserved as historical results. |
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144-146: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftVary the implementation measurement order.
The benchmark always measures the deterministic callable before the NCCL callable for each operation and size. If device state changes during the sweep, this fixed order can bias the comparison. Alternate the order across samples on every rank while keeping the same operation, size, warmup, iteration, and slowest-rank measurements.
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mainat76a127c2. The all-gather optimization is preserved at its new source path,csrc/cuda/collectives/deterministic_collective.cu.reduce_scatter_many(..., outs=...)test failure remains identical to upstream.8ccb03c. Review-fix commit55cb531achanges only benchmark scripts and their tests.What
DeterministicCollective.all_gatherwas very slow for small and medium messages. Below the 256 KiB single-block threshold, its cost grew linearly with the gathered output, at about 4 µs per KiB on 2 × B200 and 6.5 µs per KiB on 8 × B200. A 128 KiB-per-rank gather on 2 GPUs took 1.08 ms, against 46 µs just above the threshold.The cause was the copy loop shared by all three all-gather kernels (single-block, fused stage+gather, multi-block). It moved one byte per thread and recomputed the source peer with a 64-bit division for every byte.
copy_rank_ordered: when the output, the size and every peer payload are 16-byte aligned, one flat loop over all peers' 16-byte vectors keeps every thread busy across peers; otherwise each peer is copied in turn (vectors where aligned, byte-wise tail). It is still a pure rank-ordered copy, so results are byte-identical. (A first version copied peer by peer even when aligned; on 8 GPUs that was 8–14 µs slower thanmainat 64–192 KiB/rank, which the flat loop fixes.)kAllGatherSingleBlockMaxBytes = 64 KiB: a one-block gather copies the whole output by itself, so it only beats the multi-block path below about a 64 KiB output. The crossover was measured at 2 and 8 ranks.all_reduceandreduce_scatterkeepkSingleBlockFastPathMaxBytes(256 KiB). Their kernels and arithmetic are untouched.Results (B200, BF16, slowest rank, median of 100 calls)
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mainat43f150fand "after" is8ccb03c. For each world size, both builds ran back to back on the same node. The raw reports, figure and notes are inbenchmarks/results/deterministic_all_gather_b200/. In these runs,all_reduce,reduce_scatterandall_gather_manyagree before and after within 4% at every size.Prior art & reuse decision
This PR speeds up this repository's own deterministic all-gather (
DeterministicCollective) and keeps its output byte-identical; the new size test compares it with NCCL. There is no external implementation to adopt: the change is internal toDeterministicCollective, and NCCL's all-gather appears in the table above as the performance baseline.Tests
test_deterministic_all_gather_sizes.py: byte sizes across the threshold, odd tails, misaligned input and output, compared with NCCL (2 and 8 GPUs)test_deterministic_all_gather.py,test_transport_deterministic_collective.py(8 GPUs)test_deterministic_all_reduce.py,test_deterministic_reduce_scatter.py(8 GPUs)main(43f150f): a CUDA "misaligned address" in the all-reduce run, andreduce_scatter_many()does not accept theouts=argument the test passes. Both are unrelated to this change.Not in this PR
The single-block paths of
all_reduceandreduce_scattergrow with size in the same way. For example, an 8-GPU all-reduce takes 523 µs at 256 KiB per rank and 70 µs at 512 KiB. Fixing them means touching the reduction kernels and the CUDA-graph-safe fused protocol, so that is left for a separate change.Results (H100 / Hopper, BF16, slowest rank, median of 100 calls)
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55cb531a. "Before" is the merge base76a127c2plus this PR's benchmark script, "after" is the PR head; both builds ran back to back on the same 4 GPUs. 2 and 4 × H100, torch 2.13.0+cu130. No 8-GPU run (only a 4-GPU node was available). Raw data:hopper-main/pr491.The slow region of the old copy is 8 KiB to 128 KiB per rank on 2 GPUs and up to 64 KiB on 4 GPUs; there the new copy is 2.1× to 13.1× (2 GPUs) and 2.9× to 15.0× (4 GPUs) faster. Outside it the gain is at most 1.2× (4 MiB on 2 GPUs: 101.3 → 82.6 µs) and there is none at 4 MiB on 4 GPUs (128.4 vs 131.1 µs).
all_reduce,reduce_scatterandall_gather_manyagree before and after within 7% on 2 GPUs (at most 3.4 µs apart); on 4 GPUs the ratios range from 0.80 to 1.23 (at most 7.5 µs apart, no consistent direction, µs-scale noise).test_deterministic_all_gather_sizes.py+test_deterministic_all_gather.py+ transport test (2 and 4 GPUs)test_deterministic_all_reduce.py,test_deterministic_reduce_scatter.pySummary by CodeRabbit