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perf(cuda): vectorize the deterministic all-gather copy and right-size its single-block path - #491
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9333315c (review): moved to the refactor: organize models, backends, contracts and train and rollout engines #497 layout. The benchmark and plot scripts are now in benchmarks/distributed/, their unit tests in tests/benchmarks/, and the size test in tests/distributed/collectives/. Imports and commands are updated, and no code changed. The benchmark unit tests pass (10 passed, 1 skipped).
Updated on 2026-10-19: merged upstream main at 76a127c2. The all-gather optimization is preserved at its new source path, csrc/cuda/collectives/deterministic_collective.cu.
Addressed the latest CodeRabbit findings: deterministic reduction outputs are preallocated; report pairs must match GPU and dtype and contain the selected operation. Deterministic/NCCL measurement order now alternates for every sample on every rank.
Validation: 14 benchmark/plot CPU regressions passed; layout checks passed (33 passed, 1 skipped). A fresh CUDA 13/sm100 build passed the two-B200 all-gather size/alignment sweep and TP1/2 all-gather/all-reduce checks; the four-operation, three-size two-GPU benchmark produced 12 valid rows. The original eight-GPU test skips on this two-GPU host. The existing reduce_scatter_many(..., outs=...) test failure remains identical to upstream.
The performance measurements below are historical results for kernel commit 8ccb03c. Review-fix commit 55cb531a changes only benchmark scripts and their tests.
What
DeterministicCollective.all_gather was 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 than main at 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_reduce and reduce_scatter keep kSingleBlockFastPathMaxBytes (256 KiB). Their kernels and arithmetic are untouched.
Results (B200, BF16, slowest rank, median of 100 calls)
per-rank input
2 GPUs before
2 GPUs after
8 GPUs before
8 GPUs after
NCCL, 8 GPUs
1 KiB
28.7 µs
22.6 µs
93.4 µs
46.8 µs
29.0 µs
8 KiB
86.2 µs
24.5 µs
454.1 µs
70.7 µs
31.0 µs
32 KiB
285.2 µs
39.0 µs
1688.0 µs
58.0 µs
32.5 µs
128 KiB
1079.5 µs
36.1 µs
71.6 µs
62.1 µs
34.4 µs
1 MiB
52.9 µs
43.1 µs
133.6 µs
76.8 µs
58.6 µs
4 MiB
86.1 µs
49.7 µs
345.5 µs
143.1 µs
130.2 µs
"Before" is main at 43f150f and "after" is 8ccb03c. For each world size, both builds ran back to back on the same node. The raw reports, figure and notes are in benchmarks/results/deterministic_all_gather_b200/. In these runs, all_reduce, reduce_scatter and all_gather_many agree 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 to DeterministicCollective, and NCCL's all-gather appears in the table above as the performance baseline.
fail identically on unmodified main (43f150f): a CUDA "misaligned address" in the all-reduce run, and reduce_scatter_many() does not accept the outs= argument the test passes. Both are unrelated to this change.
Not in this PR
The single-block paths of all_reduce and reduce_scatter grow 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)
Run at this PR's head 55cb531a. "Before" is the merge base 76a127c2 plus 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.
per-rank input
2 GPUs before
2 GPUs after
4 GPUs before
4 GPUs after
NCCL, 4 GPUs
1 KiB
30.7 µs
27.5 µs
46.0 µs
38.5 µs
71.1 µs
8 KiB
56.5 µs
27.5 µs
110.4 µs
37.8 µs
56.0 µs
32 KiB
149.5 µs
35.8 µs
338.2 µs
37.8 µs
58.4 µs
64 KiB
272.6 µs
35.5 µs
639.4 µs
42.5 µs
57.7 µs
128 KiB
520.6 µs
39.8 µs
50.6 µs
48.8 µs
60.0 µs
1 MiB
54.9 µs
52.2 µs
61.0 µs
57.4 µs
100.3 µs
4 MiB
101.3 µs
82.6 µs
128.4 µs
131.1 µs
113.5 µs
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_scatter and all_gather_many agree 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).
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The all-gather kernels now copy peer data in rank order and use a 64 KiB output threshold for the single-block path. The change adds distributed correctness tests, a deterministic collective benchmark, and a tool to plot paired benchmark reports.
The regular, fused, and multi-block kernels use a shared rank-ordered copy helper. Aligned data uses 16-byte copies where possible. The single-block threshold is 64 KiB, and multi-block grid sizing accounts for vector work when alignment permits.
Distributed size and offset validation tests/distributed/collectives/test_deterministic_all_gather_sizes.py
The distributed test compares deterministic all-gather with NCCL across selected sizes and input and output offsets. It checks output contents and surrounding guards.
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Benchmark measurement and reporting benchmarks/distributed/benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py, tests/benchmarks/test_benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py
The benchmark measures deterministic and NCCL operations, gathers per-rank timing samples, and reports maximum rank medians. It can write metadata and samples to JSON. Tests cover timing, buffer handling, report contents, and argument validation.
The plotting tool validates paired reports and plots before and after deterministic latency with NCCL latency from the after report. Tests cover report mismatches, row ordering, and output creation.
sequenceDiagram
participant benchmark_main
participant deterministic_collective
participant NCCL
participant process_group
participant JSON_report
benchmark_main->>deterministic_collective: measure selected operations
benchmark_main->>NCCL: measure reference operations
benchmark_main->>process_group: gather rank timing samples
process_group-->>benchmark_main: return samples in rank order
benchmark_main->>JSON_report: write metadata and results when requested
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RL-Align/RL-Kernel#501: The distributed test compares deterministic all-gather output with NCCL across sizes and offsets, matching the issue’s exact multi-GPU parity objective.
RL-Align/RL-Kernel#386: The change updates the deterministic all-gather path and tests output parity; the supplied context does not establish that it addresses the issue’s other work items.
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inferred — The changed data movement remains within the caller's existing CUDA tensors and collective peer group. The benchmark obtains device selection from its launch environment and sizes and report destination from local command-line arguments; the inspected changes do not introduce a new remotely callable interface.
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observed — The named test entrypoints are a mocked CUDA event class, local timing callbacks, temporary-report writers, and plotting assertions. Their complete declarations establish test-local behavior rather than a newly exposed authentication or authority boundary.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — The lower cutoff expands applicability of an existing recovery limitation. If staged execution fails before completion publication, pending staged state can remain and subsequent fused calls reject it. Close synchronizes before destruction rather than providing transactional rollback. This limitation predates the PR, but additional message sizes now use that path; recoverability under injected failures remains unverified.
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- Line 111: Update the NCCL timing callbacks for dist.reduce_scatter_tensor and
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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 git diff --check passed.
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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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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Update the per-operation, per-size measurement flow around _median_us and
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Size the general all-gather grid from vector work when the aligned path applies.
When the output pointer, the per-rank byte count, and every peer pointer are 16-byte aligned, copy_rank_ordered assigns one 16-byte vector to each thread. DeterministicCollectiveState::all_gather still computes blocks from output_bytes (lines 1926-1929). For a 128 KiB output, that yields 512 blocks. The aligned path has 8192 vectors, so only 32 blocks perform copy work. The other blocks exit at their bounds check. The ratio stays 16:1 up to 1 MiB, where kMaxBlocks caps the byte-count grid at 4096 blocks.
Choose the grid from the vector count when the same alignment condition holds. Keep the byte-count grid for the fallback path, because its per-peer byte loops rely on that grid. The benefit is modest. Idle blocks add block-scheduling overhead but do not reduce copy work, so the gain is likely small.
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Update DeterministicCollectiveState::all_gather to size the grid from the
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Make both all_gather_many timed callbacks use the same output allocation.
The deterministic callback allocates a new output on every timed call. The NCCL callback writes a preallocated gathered tensor, so each timed sample includes allocation work only on the deterministic side. This can inflate the deterministic all_gather_many row. The all_gather row does not have this mismatch, because both of its callbacks write gathered.
This change makes the NCCL callback allocate its output inside the timed region, as the deterministic callback does. Both rows then include the same allocation boundary. A deeper fix would give deterministic all_gather_many an optional out parameter, as all_gather has, and pass out=gathered here. I did not inspect the full all_gather_many signature, so I did not write that change.
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Update the NCCL callback in the all_gather_many benchmark case to allocate its
output during each timed invocation, matching the deterministic callback’s
allocation behavior. Leave the all_gather callbacks unchanged.
🟡 Minor · Report the actual reduce-scatter input size per… · benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py:156-164
Report the actual reduce-scatter input size per rank.
For reduce_scatter with world_size > 1, reduce_in contains world_size * numel elements, but the report records only numel * element. The console output and plotter therefore associate the timing with an input size smaller by world_size. Update the report field only; keep the existing allocation unchanged.
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- "input_bytes_per_rank": numel * element,+ "input_bytes_per_rank": (+ reduce_in.numel() * element+ if op == "reduce_scatter"+ else numel * element+ ),
Update the report assertion to expect 64 bytes for the two-rank reduce-scatter case and 32 bytes for all-reduce.
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Update the input_bytes_per_rank field in the report row to use the actual
reduce_scatter input size from reduce_in, while retaining numel-based sizing for
other operations; leave the allocation unchanged. Update the corresponding
report assertion to expect 64 bytes for the two-rank reduce-scatter case and 32
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🟡 Minor · Validate benchmark arguments before allocating… · benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py:57-63
Validate benchmark arguments before allocating tensors.
--iterations <= 0 produces no samples. The later statistics.median(samples) call then receives empty lists and fails before the report is written. --size-bytes is also silently rounded by size // element; values that are not element-aligned measure and report fewer bytes than requested. Values smaller than one dtype element create zero-element tensors.
Reject non-positive iterations and require each size to be positive and divisible by the selected dtype element size during argument parsing.
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- return parser.parse_args(argv)+ args = parser.parse_args(argv)+ if args.iterations <= 0:+ parser.error("--iterations must be positive")+ element = torch.empty((), dtype=_DTYPES[args.dtype]).element_size()+ if any(size <= 0 or size % element != 0 for size in args.size_bytes):+ parser.error(+ f"--size-bytes values must be positive and divisible by "+ f"the {element}-byte dtype element size"+ )+ return args
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Validate benchmark arguments immediately after parser.parse_args: reject
non-positive iterations and any --size-bytes value that is non-positive or not
divisible by the selected dtype’s element size. Return the parsed arguments only
after these checks pass.
🟡 Minor · Validate all benchmark settings before plotting. · plot_deterministic_collectives.py:61-77
benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py records torch and cuda, but the plotter compares only gpu and dtype. The producer also uses --warmup and --iterations without recording them. Reports from different runtime versions or timing settings can therefore pass validation and produce misleading before/after plots.
Record warmup and iterations, then compare them with torch and cuda. This is one incomplete metadata contract, but it requires changes in both the producer and the plotter.
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--- a/benchmarks/benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py+++ b/benchmarks/benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py@@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ def main(argv: Sequence[str] | None = None) -> None:
"world_size": world,
"dtype": args.dtype,
"gpu": props.name,
+ "warmup": args.warmup,+ "iterations": args.iterations,
"torch": torch.__version__,
"cuda": torch.version.cuda,
"rows": rows,
--- a/benchmarks/plot_deterministic_collectives.py+++ b/benchmarks/plot_deterministic_collectives.py@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def main() -> None:
f"{before_path} and {after_path} have different world sizes: "
f"{before_report['world_size']} != {after_report['world_size']}"
)
- for field in ("gpu", "dtype"):+ for field in ("gpu", "dtype", "torch", "cuda", "warmup", "iterations"):
if before_report[field] != after_report[field]:
raise SystemExit(
f"{before_path} and {after_path} have different {field} values: "
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Update the benchmark report metadata in benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py
to record the configured warmup and iterations values, then extend the metadata
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- Around line 133-139: Update the NCCL callback in the all_gather_many benchmark
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- Around line 156-164: Update the input_bytes_per_rank field in the report row
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benchmarks/benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py:133-139 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win Make both all_gather_many timed callbacks use the same output allocation.
The deterministic callback allocates a new output on every timed call. The NCCL callback writes a preallocated gathered tensor, so each timed sample includes allocation work only on the deterministic side. This can inflate the deterministic all_gather_many row. The all_gather row does not have this mismatch, because both of its callbacks write gathered.
This change makes the NCCL callback allocate its output inside the timed region, as the deterministic callback does. Both rows then include the same allocation boundary. A deeper fix would give deterministic all_gather_many an optional out parameter, as all_gather has, and pass out=gathered here. I did not inspect the full all_gather_many signature, so I did not write that change.
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benchmarks/benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py:156-164 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win Report the actual reduce-scatter input size per rank.
For reduce_scatter with world_size > 1, reduce_in contains world_size * numel elements, but the report records only numel * element. The console output and plotter therefore associate the timing with an input size smaller by world_size. Update the report field only; keep the existing allocation unchanged.
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- "input_bytes_per_rank": numel * element,+ "input_bytes_per_rank": (+ reduce_in.numel() * element+ if op == "reduce_scatter"+ else numel * element+ ),
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all_gather_many allocation (benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py:133-139): the NCCL callback now allocates its output per call, matching the deterministic path, so both rows include the same allocation. I left the out= parameter for all_gather_many out of scope. (d2de1d4)
reduce_scatter input size (:156-164): input_bytes_per_rank now uses reduce_in.numel() for reduce_scatter, so the report matches the real input. The report test asserts 64 bytes for reduce-scatter and 32 for all-reduce. (d2de1d4)
Argument validation (:57-63): parse_args now rejects non-positive --iterations and any --size-bytes value that is non-positive or not a multiple of the dtype element size. I added a test for these cases. (d2de1d4)
Plot metadata (plot_deterministic_collectives.py:61-77): the report now records warmup and iterations, and the plotter compares gpu, dtype, torch, cuda, warmup and iterations before plotting. (d2de1d4)
Prefix sentinel (test_deterministic_all_gather_sizes.py:85-92): the storage is filled with 0xA5 and the test asserts the output prefix still holds it, so a zero-byte overwrite is now caught. (cc27cf5)
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This loop issues many collectives (dist.all_gather_into_tensor reference + collective.all_gather) inside mp.spawn(join=True), but a failure on one rank is not coordinated with the others. If a rank fails any assertion here (or the guard asserts below) after the collective completes, it unwinds and destroy_process_group() aborts while peer ranks proceed to the next dist.all_gather_into_tensor, where they block until the 5-minute PG timeout. The net effect is a slow, opaque timeout that hides the real mismatch/rank, and a GPU busy-wait on the custom collective can likewise stall the parent. Record failures per-rank and re-raise after a final synchronized barrier (or abort all ranks) so a single rank's failure surfaces promptly instead of as a timeout.
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Add a suffix sentinel after the all-gather output in the size test.
The test allocates storage with exactly size * world_size + output_offset bytes, so out = storage[output_offset:] ends at the end of the allocation. The value check covers only out, and the prefix check covers only storage[:output_offset]. Neither assertion reads an index at or after out's end. A copy that writes one byte past the last rank's output, such as a tail-handling bug in the new byte-wise path, would pass this test.
Reserve trailing guard bytes and assert they are unchanged:
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Update the all-gather size test around `storage` and `out` to reserve trailing
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--warmup -1 is accepted. range(-1) skips warmup calls, but the timed loop still runs. The report then records -1 as the warmup count.
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Add the required report metadata to the test fixture.
_write_report omits warmup and iterations, but the plotter indexes both keys before checking later conditions. The GPU and dtype mismatch cases, all missing-operation cases, and the reordered-row test therefore raise KeyError instead of reaching their intended assertions.
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collective.all_gather always uses the fused CUDA entrypoint. That entrypoint uses the staged path only when the output exceeds 64 KiB, so its staged path cannot enter the <= 64 KiB fast-kernel branch. A regression in deterministic_all_gather_fast_kernel can pass this test.
Use the bound stage operation followed by the bound all-gather operation for one small case:
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- returned = collective.all_gather(shard, out=out)+ if size == 1 and input_offset == 0 and output_offset == 0:+ collective._extension.deterministic_collective_stage(+ collective._handle, shard+ )+ collective._extension.deterministic_collective_all_gather(+ collective._handle, out+ )+ returned = out+ else:+ returned = collective.all_gather(shard, out=out)
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Update the test case that invokes collective.all_gather to cover the small
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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.
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… 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.
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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.
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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.
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Reject non-positive iterations and unaligned sizes, allocate the NCCL
all_gather_many output inside the timed region like the deterministic path,
report the real reduce_scatter input size, and record/compare warmup,
iterations, torch and cuda between before/after reports.
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Add docstrings and doc comments to the Python and CUDA functions added or changed here. Docstring and comment lines only; no code changes.
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Please move the collective benchmarks to benchmarks/distributed/, their unit tests to tests/benchmarks/, and the size/alignment test to tests/distributed/collectives/, updating imports and commands to follow #497; otherwise, LGTM.
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Done in 9333315c. The benchmark and plot scripts are now in benchmarks/distributed/, their unit tests are in tests/benchmarks/, and test_deterministic_all_gather_sizes.py is in tests/distributed/collectives/. The imports, usage docstrings and the PR's Tests commands use the new paths. No code changed; the benchmark unit tests pass (10 passed, 1 skipped).
…RL-Align#497 layout
Move the benchmark and plot scripts to benchmarks/distributed/, their unit
tests to tests/benchmarks/ and the all-gather size test to
tests/distributed/collectives/, and update the imports and usage commands.
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…ectives
NCCL validates nothing per call, so the deterministic callbacks now pass
validate_signature=False. With --warmup 0 an uncached signature exchange no
longer lands in the timed samples.
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OpenCodeReview summary, reduce_scatter and --size-bytes: fixed in eb7d18a3, in the docstring only. The docstring was wrong: for reduce_scatter, --size-bytes is the per-rank output, and the input is world size × that, the same shape as dist.reduce_scatter_tensor. The measurements were already labelled correctly. The JSON input_bytes_per_rank field holds the actual input, and the plots and the comparison checks are keyed on it. The 256 KiB fast-path threshold is tested on that input (input_bytes <= kSingleBlockFastPathMaxBytes), so the default sweep still crosses it at every world size. I kept the meaning of the CLI argument, so the published B200/H100 reports stay comparable with new runs.
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test_deterministic_all_gather_sizes.py L30-L33, skip when WORLD_SIZE is set: not changed. The guard is a re-entry guard. The test takes its world size from torch.cuda.device_count() (L25), spawns its own ranks with mp.spawn (L123), and each worker creates its own process group on a private TCP port (L62-70). Under a torchrun-launched pytest every launcher rank would try to do the same, so the test has to refuse that launcher. The sibling tests (test_deterministic_all_reduce.py, test_deterministic_all_gather.py, test_deterministic_reduce_scatter.py) use the same WORLD_SIZE != 1 guard. With WORLD_SIZE=8, the new file and test_deterministic_all_reduce.py skip with the same message, so this PR adds no gap. torch.distributed.is_initialized() would not work as a gate: in a torchrun-launched pytest parent no group exists yet. The coverage in the PR body comes from plain pytest at 2, 4 and 8 GPUs.
L26, hardcoded _THRESHOLD: not changed in code; the docstring now names the constant (c1a5269c). The extension exports no constants (csrc/bindings/ops.cpp registers only functions), and the repo already mirrors the sibling threshold the same way: rl_engine/distributed/algorithms/collectives.py:22 hardcodes _DIRECT_STAGING_MAX_BYTES = 256 * 1024 for kSingleBlockFastPathMaxBytes. The sweep does not depend on the literal to straddle the boundary: the fixed sizes (4095, 32 KiB + 3, 96 KiB, 1 MiB) put the gathered output on both sides of any threshold between 32 KiB and 192 KiB at every supported world size, and the NCCL equality check runs for every size. A retune would lose only the four derived boundary cases. Exposing a tuning constant through the binding is a Python-surface change I would not fold into a perf PR.
benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py L219, destroy_process_group() outside the finally: not changed in behaviour; a comment explains the placement (c1a5269c). Moving the call into the finally makes a failing rank block. destroy_process_group() flushes this rank's queued NCCL work first, so with a peer still inside a collective (the benchmark gathers samples with dist.all_gather after every op) it waits for the NCCL timeout. The current placement exits at once on an exception: torch prints its "not called before program exit" warning, and torchrun stops the other ranks and reports ChildFailedError. I reproduced both on 2 GPUs: rank 0 raising while rank 1 is in all_reduce ended in about 2 s with the current code, and hung until an external timeout with the call in the finally.
benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py L154-L159, all_gather_many passes one tensor: not changed in behaviour; the module docstring now says the row passes one tensor of --size-bytes and does not measure the multi-tensor case (28c99752). This PR does not change all_gather_many, and the script has passed a single tensor since its first revision, so the published before/after reports use the same call and stay comparable with new runs; a different tensor count would break that. The call also does not pack inputs: its docstring says "one staging handshake and no packing" (rl_engine/distributed/algorithms/collectives.py:508).
L210, record the executed backend: not changed. The script builds DeterministicCollective directly and initialises the group with the hard-coded "nccl" backend, so backend_id (the class constant cuda_ipc_fixed_tree, collectives.py:174) and the distributed backend are the same in every report it can write. They would not tell a before report from an after report, which differ in the extension build, not in these fields.
test_plot_deterministic_collectives.py L12, matplotlib not declared, module skipped in CI: fixed in 49d4fb3f. matplotlib is added to the dev extra, which the unit-test job installs (pip install -e ".[dev]"), so the plot tests run instead of being skipped. The plot tests pass locally with matplotlib 3.11.1.
plot_deterministic_collectives.py L115, caption from the first report only: fixed in 49d4fb3f. With more than one world size, dtype, torch and cuda of every "after" report must equal the first one's, otherwise the script exits with the field and the two files named. This makes the single caption true for every panel. A test covers each of the three fields.
test_benchmark_deterministic_collectives.py L174, same samples for every operation: fixed in 49d4fb3f. The mocked measure offsets its samples by 100 µs per call, so the reduce_scatter and all_reduce rows differ, and the test asserts each row's samples and medians. A swapped attribution would now fail.
test_deterministic_all_gather_sizes.py L93-L94, does the wrapper pass the offset view through: no change. DeterministicCollective.all_gather hands input and out to deterministic_collective_all_gather_fused(self._handle, input, out) without copying or calling .contiguous() (rl_engine/distributed/algorithms/collectives.py:491); _validate_sharded_output only checks them. The view with a non-zero storage_offset therefore reaches the kernel, and the 0xA5 prefix and tail guards test the kernel's own writes.
L73-L75, gathered output of 8 MiB against max_size_bytes of 2 MiB: no change. max_size_bytes bounds the per-rank input only: _validate_gather_input compares input.numel() * element_size with it (collectives.py:678-682), and no check compares the gathered output with it. The largest per-rank case is 1 MiB + 5 bytes, below 2 MiB.
…y name
The cross-world environment test changed one report of the second pair, so the
pair check raised first and the cross-world check was never reached; change both
reports and match the cross-world message. The reorder test now uses latency
that falls with size and different NCCL series per report, so a wrong sort key
or a reference taken from the before report changes the asserted series.
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Replies to the three OpenCodeReview summary items; all three are fixed in 5882864c, tests only:
test_plot_deterministic_collectives.py L90-L92, cross-world test hit the pair check first: changing only a4 made b4/a4 disagree, so the within-pair check raised first. The test now changes both reports of the second pair and matches the cross-world message (<a4> and <a2> have different <field> values). With the cross-world block disabled, the three cases fail.
L166-L167, wrong sort key undetected: the reorder test uses latency that falls with size (slope=-1/1024), so ordering by latency gives a different series. Sorting rows by deterministic_us makes it fail.
L190, ambiguous reference series: the before report's nccl_us is offset by 100, so the reference line is identifiable. Drawing it from the before rows makes the test fail.
12 tests pass; the three mutations above each fail the test they were meant for.
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platform: cudaSpecific optimizations or bugs in NVIDIA graphics cards (such as FlashInfer, TMA optimizations)type: performancePerformance optimization tasks aimed at increasing throughput and reducing latency etc.
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9333315c(review): moved to the refactor: organize models, backends, contracts and train and rollout engines #497 layout. The benchmark and plot scripts are now inbenchmarks/distributed/, their unit tests intests/benchmarks/, and the size test intests/distributed/collectives/. Imports and commands are updated, and no code changed. The benchmark unit tests pass (10 passed, 1 skipped).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)
"Before" is
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)
Run at this PR's head
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