FE execute-path host overhead: idempotent set_stream + skip the discarded per-call context - #611
FE execute-path host overhead: idempotent set_stream + skip the discarded per-call context#611YangXu1990uiuc wants to merge 2 commits into
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In `@test/python/test_set_stream_cache.py`:
- Around line 11-34: Add the project’s test-level marker to both
test_set_stream_skips_backend_call_when_unchanged and
test_destroy_handle_forgets_cached_stream, marking each as L0. Keep the existing
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…am is unchanged cudnnSetStream is not free. For a non-null stream, cudnn::ops::SetStream (backend src/graph/src/context.cpp) issues several CUDA driver queries on EVERY call — green-context detection (cuStreamGetGreenCtx), cudaStreamGetPriority, cudaDeviceGetStreamPriorityRange, plus a cudaEventRecord device check when the stream changes — to maintain cuDNN's internal per-priority / per-green-context stream pool. It does this even when the stream has not changed (there is no unchanged-stream early return). On Blackwell that is ~2.4us/call (measured), and a framework that calls set_stream before every execute pays it every iteration. Cache the last stream per handle in the Python layer and skip the backend call when it is unchanged, so a steady-state single-stream loop pays it once. destroy_handle forgets the entry so a reused handle address is not wrongly skipped. Assumes a handle is not driven from two streams concurrently (the normal single-stream case; a caller that does needs its own handle per stream regardless). This closes most of the per-op host-overhead gap between routing a plain GEMM through cuDNN and calling cuBLAS directly (the cudnn backend execute itself is already at cuBLAS parity). A complementary backend fix — an unchanged-stream early return in SetStream — would help all callers (including framework code that calls cudnnSetStream directly); filed separately. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@test/python/test_set_stream_cache.py`:
- Line 18: Update the tests around the module-global cudnn._handle_to_stream
cache by adding an autouse fixture that clears it both before and after every
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| def test_set_stream_skips_backend_call_when_unchanged(monkeypatch): | ||
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| monkeypatch.setattr(cudnn._pybind_module, "_raw_set_stream", lambda h, s: calls.append((h, s))) | ||
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Clear the shared stream cache after each test.
Line 18 and Line 32 clear _handle_to_stream only before the test. The second test leaves handle=7 cached with stream=100. Because this dictionary is module-global, a later test can skip _raw_set_stream based on stale state. Add an autouse fixture that clears the cache before and after each test.
Proposed isolation fixture
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def clear_stream_cache():
+ cudnn._handle_to_stream.clear()
+ yield
+ cudnn._handle_to_stream.clear()
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- cudnn._handle_to_stream.clear()
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- cudnn._handle_to_stream.clear()Also applies to: 32-32
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In `@test/python/test_set_stream_cache.py` at line 18, Update the tests around the
module-global cudnn._handle_to_stream cache by adding an autouse fixture that
clears it both before and after every test. Remove the individual setup-only
clear calls in the affected tests, while preserving their existing test behavior
and ensuring no cached handle/stream state leaks between tests.
execute() built a caller ExecutionContext (a cudnnGetStream round-trip + an object alloc) at the top of every call, but only used it when the plan was not yet built. In steady state the plan is built, so the context was computed and thrown away on every execute — a ~2.9us tax that made execute() slower than execute_plan_at_index() for the identical plan. Move the context build inside the `not _is_built` branch, where it is the only user. No API/behavior change; the JIT-build path still gets the caller's handle/stream. On SM100, 256^3 bf16 single-plan matmul this closes the whole execute()-vs-execute_plan_at_index() gap (16.3 -> 10.5 us), matching execute_plan_at_index; test_matmul_bias_relu 34 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closing in favor of #612. #611 was the minimal fallback — the execute-path host-overhead fixes (idempotent |
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Two independent, self-contained cuts to the FE Python execute path's per-call host overhead. Both remove a redundant per-call
cudnn*backend round-trip that a framework routing ops one-by-one through cuDNN pays every iteration. Neither changes API or results.For context, the cuDNN backend execute itself is already at cuBLAS parity (
execute_plan_at_index, pinned plan, ~8.4µs vstorch.mm~7.6µs for a 256³ matmul); these two FE-side round-trips are a large part of the remaining per-op host gap.1. Make
cudnn.set_streamidempotent (skipcudnnSetStreamwhen the stream is unchanged)cudnnSetStreamis not a cheap pointer store. For a non-null stream,cudnn::ops::SetStream(backendsrc/graph/src/context.cpp) issues several CUDA driver queries on every call — green-context detection (cuStreamGetGreenCtx),cudaStreamGetPriority,cudaDeviceGetStreamPriorityRange, plus acudaEventRecorddevice check when the stream changes — to maintain cuDNN's internal per-priority / per-green-context stream pool. It does this even when the stream has not changed (no unchanged-stream early return).Measured on B200 (host-bound µs/call):
cudnn.set_streamis ~2.5µs regardless of stream kind (legacy 2.49 / normal 2.63 / high-priority 2.66 / same-stream-repeated 2.63), and it is not the pybind layer (a trivial pybind→backend call is 0.11µs). A framework that callsset_streambefore everyexecutepays this ~2.4µs every iteration.Cache
{handle: last_stream}in the Python layer;set_streamforwards to the backend only on a change, anddestroy_handleforgets the entry so a reused handle address is not wrongly skipped. The bindings are renamedset_stream/destroy_handle→_raw_set_stream/_raw_destroy_handle(private, same pattern as_execute→execute) and the public names become thin caching wrappers;get_streamis unchanged and stays consistent with the cache. Assumes a handle is not driven from two streams concurrently (the normal single-stream case).Regression test mocks the raw backend call (no GPU): verifies unchanged→skipped, changed/new-handle→forwarded, and destroy→re-armed.
2. Skip the discarded per-call context in
graph.execute()execute()built a callerExecutionContext(acudnnGetStreamround-trip + an object alloc) at the top of every call, but only used it when the plan was not yet built. In steady state the plan is built, so the context was computed and thrown away every call — a ~2.9µs tax that madeexecute()slower thanexecute_plan_at_index()for the identical plan.The fix moves the context build inside the
not _is_builtbranch, its only user. Rigorously isolated on a single-plan graph (both calls run the identical kernel, so no plan confound), SM100, 256³ bf16 matmul:execute()execute_plan_at_index(0)A surgical control (patch
_build_contextto a no-op) drops unpatchedexecute()by exactly 2.87µs and the patched build by 0.48µs — i.e. the fix removes precisely that discarded round-trip.test_matmul_bias_relu34 passed on SM100 with the change; results bit-identical.Complementary backend fix
An unchanged-stream early return in
SetStream(backend) would help all callers, including framework code that callscudnnSetStreamdirectly (e.g. before each op). Filed as a backend MR; this FE cache is the immediate, backend-version-independent half.note to self: claude::11323ca1-07bc-4fc4-8ec7-ba95d8f061d8 — cuDNN per-call host-overhead. cwd /home/scratch.yanxu_libs/cudnn_frontend
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