deepspeedai / deepspeedai/DeepSpeed
cudaMemcpyAsync run a long time on backword
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Description
Describe the bug
we find cudaMemcpyAsync run too much time on torch profiler:
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on aten::_local_scalar_dense
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on _has_inf_or_nan
Expected behavior
reduce cudaMemcpyAsync op
ds_report output
[2023-12-25 04:06:02,333] [INFO] [real_accelerator.py:158:get_accelerator] Setting ds_accelerator to cuda (auto detect)
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DeepSpeed C++/CUDA extension op report
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NOTE: Ops not installed will be just-in-time (JIT) compiled at
runtime if needed. Op compatibility means that your system
meet the required dependencies to JIT install the op.
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JIT compiled ops requires ninja
ninja .................. [OKAY]
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op name ................ installed .. compatible
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async_io ............... [NO] ....... [OKAY]
fused_adam ............. [NO] ....... [OKAY]
cpu_adam ............... [NO] ....... [OKAY]
cpu_adagrad ............ [NO] ....... [OKAY]
fused_lamb ............. [NO] ....... [OKAY]
quantizer .............. [NO] ....... [OKAY]
random_ltd ............. [NO] ....... [OKAY]
[WARNING] sparse_attn requires a torch version >= 1.5 and < 2.0 but detected 2.1
[WARNING] using untested triton version (2.1.0), only 1.0.0 is known to be compatible
sparse_attn ............ [NO] ....... [NO]
spatial_inference ...... [NO] ....... [OKAY]
transformer ............ [NO] ....... [OKAY]
stochastic_transformer . [NO] ....... [OKAY]
transformer_inference .. [NO] ....... [OKAY]
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DeepSpeed general environment info:
torch install path ............... ['/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/torch']
torch version .................... 2.1.0a0+b5021ba
deepspeed install path ........... ['/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/deepspeed']
deepspeed info ................... 0.10.3, unknown, unknown
torch cuda version ............... 12.1
torch hip version ................ None
nvcc version ..................... 12.1
deepspeed wheel compiled w. ...... torch 2.1, cuda 12.1
shared memory (/dev/shm) size .... 1007.58 GB
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Research direction
Start with the torch profiler traces for aten::_local_scalar_dense and _has_inf_or_nan, using the provided ds_report output as environment context. Identify the backward-path operations associated with the reported cudaMemcpyAsync calls; done means reproducing the slowdown and reducing the reported cudaMemcpyAsync overhead.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, pytorch
- Domain
- machine-learning, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100