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feat(platforms): persistent kernel auto-tuning in the HAL (#50) - #536
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Add an opt-in persistent autotuner (rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py) that profiles Triton launch candidates on first use and caches the winner on disk, keyed by device identity (UUID/PCI, driver/runtime/library versions), source revision, candidate set, input shape/dtype/stride, scalars and phase. Disabled by default; with RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNE unset every operator keeps its fixed launch. The shared Triton adapter (backends/shared/triton/autotuning.py) wires SiLU, SwiGLU, RoPE, embedding forward, RMSNorm forward/dx, ratio/KL and GRPO normalisation through the tuner. Explicit tuned GEMM, attention and logprob backends (backends/shared/triton/tuned.py) are selectable only by backend ID through the runtime registry; strict and default dispatch are unchanged. Reduction candidates vary only the stage count, so arithmetic order is fixed and every candidate is byte-identical to the fixed launch. Also fix the det_gemm test import guard: an internal ImportError (a renamed ROCm reduce kernel) was reported as "Triton is unavailable", skipping the Triton GEMM tests. The test now imports the current kernel name, and only a missing triton package skips. Includes the candidate qualification suite, cache/graph regression tests, the cold/restart/precompiled benchmark (benchmarks/tuning) and B200 evidence under reports/experiments/issue50_b200. Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
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🟡 Minor · Avoid shadowing the backend parameter in the priority loop. · registry.py:1041-1072
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAvoid shadowing the
backendparameter in the priority loop.The new
backend: str | Noneparameter is reused by the legacy loop. Mypy therefore reports_get_or_create_backend(backend)as receivingstr | Any, which fails the configured CI check. The explicit branch already passes anOpBackend; this is not a runtime cache-key mismatch.Suggested fix
- for backend in candidates: - op_instance = self._get_or_create_backend(backend) + for candidate_backend in candidates: + op_instance = self._get_or_create_backend(candidate_backend)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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170-170: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueFsync the parent directory after
os.replace.The code fsyncs the temporary file before the rename. It does not fsync the containing directory after the rename. After a power loss, the renamed entry can be lost and the tuning result disappears. The cost is only one extra tuning run, so this is a durability gap, not a correctness defect. Open
path.parentread-only, callos.fsyncon it, and ignoreOSError.Based on learnings: "open the containing directory read-only and fsync it after the rename".
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Review comments at @rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/autotuning.py:
- Line 216: Annotate `self._launches` with an explicit dictionary type, and
update the revision calculation to check the modules returned by
`inspect.getmodule` before passing them to `inspect.getsource`; handle
unresolved modules explicitly so neither call receives `None`.
Review comments at @rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py:
- Line 23: Update the import in the autotuner module to source RLKernelMode and
rl_kernel_mode from the canonical module, rl_engine.runtime.policy, rather than
the compatibility module.
Review comments at @tests/ops/test_autotuning_candidates.py:
- Around line 51-54: Update the non-default candidate handling in the
OutOfResources exception within the candidate launch loop: record the failing
kernel and config in request.node.user_properties, then continue to the next
candidate instead of calling pytest.skip. Preserve the existing behavior that
re-raises for the default TuneConfig.
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Review comments at @rl_engine/runtime/registry.py:
- Around line 1041-1072: Rename the priority-loop variable in `get_op` so it
does not shadow the `backend` string parameter, and pass the renamed `OpBackend`
candidate to `_get_or_create_backend`.
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Review comments at @rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.py:
- Line 170: After os.replace(temporary, path), fsync the containing directory by
opening path.parent read-only and closing the descriptor afterward; ignore
OSError from this durability step.
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- Import RLKernelMode/rl_kernel_mode from rl_engine.runtime.policy, not the compatibility alias mypy cannot resolve. - Annotate the launch cache and fail explicitly when a kernel's source module cannot be resolved; the revision hash input is unchanged. - Rename the priority-loop variable in KernelRegistry.get_op so it no longer shadows the explicit backend argument. - Fsync the cache directory after the atomic rename. - In candidate qualification, an OutOfResources candidate is recorded and skipped on its own instead of skipping the whole test. Re-ran the auto-tuning suites on B200 in both environments and refreshed the evidence and source fingerprints. Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
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Thanks for the review. The two findings from the review body are also addressed in f3df6e9:
All six mypy errors from the linting job are fixed; After these changes the auto-tuning suites were re-run on B200 with PyTorch 2.14/Triton 3.8 and with PyTorch 2.13/Triton 3.7.1, and the results are unchanged. HAL and registry: 31 passed. Regressions: 60 passed, 2 skipped. Candidate qualification: 402 passed, 27 skipped, all candidates byte-identical and none resource-limited. Benchmark: 18 passed. GEMM with |
…nctions - Create the cache directory with mode 0700. If an existing directory is owned by another user or is group/other-writable, keep selections in memory and warn, since anyone able to write records could steer candidate selection. Tests cover both cases and the mode of a newly created directory. - Document the private-cache requirement in docs/usage/autotuning.md. - Add docstrings to every function, method and class this change adds or modifies, including benchmarks and tests (code is otherwise unchanged). Re-ran the auto-tuning suites on B200 in both environments and refreshed the evidence and source fingerprints. Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
Agreed, fixed in f3df6e9. The priority loop in |
Agreed, fixed in f3df6e9. After the atomic rename the cache directory is opened read-only and fsynced. An |
Fixed in afb2c48. Every function, method and class this PR adds or modifies now has a docstring: 115 of 115, counting all functions in the new modules, benchmarks and tests, plus the functions whose lines change in The commit adds docstrings only. With docstrings stripped, the AST of every touched file is identical to the revision the B200 suites were re-run on. |
Agreed, implemented in afb2c48:
Even before this change, a record was accepted only if its configuration is one of the current candidates for that kernel; arbitrary launch options were rejected. On B200 every candidate is byte-identical to the fixed launch (see After this change the auto-tuning suites were re-run on B200 with PyTorch 2.14/Triton 3.8 and with PyTorch 2.13/Triton 3.7.1. HAL and registry: 34 passed, including the new tests. Regressions: 60 passed, 2 skipped. Candidate qualification: 402 passed, 27 skipped. Benchmark: 18 passed. GEMM with |
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Ready for review. Closes #50 for CUDA; ROCm hardware validation is still open (see Limitations).
Summary
Adds opt-in persistent auto-tuning of Triton launch parameters to the HAL, as described in #50:
rl_engine/platforms/autotuner.pyprofiles launch candidates on first use and caches the winner on disk. The cache key includes the device identity (UUID and PCI bus ID, driver, runtime and library versions), the source revision, the candidate set, input shape/dtype/stride, scalar arguments and phase. Writes are versioned JSON with a per-key lock and atomic replacement; unreadable or unwritable caches fall back to memory with a warning.rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/autotuning.pywires SiLU, SwiGLU, RoPE, embedding forward, RMSNorm forward/dx, ratio/KL and GRPO normalisation through the tuner (TunableKernel/pin_autotune).rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/tuned.pyadds tuned GEMM, attention and logprob backends. They are selectable only by explicit backend ID viakernel_registry.get_op(..., backend="rlkernel.triton.tuned_gemm"), never through strict or default dispatch, and they do not claim batch invariance.Tuning is disabled by default. With
RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNEunset or0, every operator launches its existing fixed configuration.Prior art & reuse decision
Triton 3.8's
@triton.autotune(cache_results=True)already persists autotune results on disk. Its key covers the Triton version, compile target, kernel source, cache-relevant environment variables, the tuning key and the config list, and it chooses the fastest config by timing alone.This PR does not build on it for three reasons:
num_stages, with warp layout fixed after a warp-count change caused a later-input RMSNorm mismatch. Every candidate is qualified byte-for-byte against the fixed launch (see Tests).Behavior changes
KernelRegistry.get_opgains an optional keyword-onlybackend=for the three explicit tuned backends. An unknown or unavailable explicit backend raises rather than falling back.tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py: the import guard caught anyImportError, and the test imports a ROCm reduce kernel under its old name (_det_gemm_tree_reduce_to_output_kernel, now..._rocm_kernel), so every Triton GEMM case skipped as "Triton is unavailable". The import now uses the current name, and only a missingtritonpackage skips. With_Cbuilt on B200,mainreports 22 passed / 49 skipped for this file; this change reports 73 passed / 9 skipped (gfx942-only). No test is newly skipped.Results (B200)
Full evidence, commands and raw data are in
reports/experiments/issue50_b200/README.md. Two environments: A = PyTorch 2.14 / Triton 3.8 (native extension not built: PyTorch 2.14 headers need C++20, the extension builds with C++17), B = PyTorch 2.13 / Triton 3.7.1 with_Cbuilt from this tree.tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py,RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNE=0tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py,RL_KERNEL_AUTOTUNE=1tests/platforms/test_persistent_autotuner.py+tests/runtime/test_kernel_registry.pytests/ops/test_autotuning_gpu.py(operator, cache, graph regressions)tests/ops/test_autotuning_candidates.py(all candidates vs fixed launch, bytewise)tests/benchmarks/test_autotuning_benchmark.pySkips: the GEMM skips need ROCm gfx942. The others are dtypes the existing operators do not support; their original errors are asserted instead.
Candidate coverage: 24 CUDA-reachable kernels and 101 kernel/config pairs, all matching under both Triton versions.
Existing
tests/opsvsmain(env B, same_C, tuning off / on):mainmainnow pass.main, tuning off and on. On four B200s the TP check passes for TP=2 and TP=4 on both trees.main.test_rms_norm::test_registry_dispatches_rms_normfails in every run.test_swiglu::test_autograd_wrapper_contiguity_and_gradient_routingis flaky: it is a CPU test with unseeded inputs, and failed 6/20 runs onmainand 4/20 with this change.Performance: 5 independent process groups, 52 BF16 operator/preset/phase cases. A benefit counts only when the ranges of process medians do not overlap.
tuned, restarted processes load fromdisk, and hot selector calls are zero.Auto-tuning is therefore mainly useful under CUDA graph capture, which is why it stays opt-in.
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Environment: NVIDIA B200, driver 580.126.20, CUDA 13.0; see the two environments above. Performance was measured in env A.
python ci/run.py layoutpasses.Scope / Known limitations
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