perf(rocm): restore VIME TP4 decode throughput - #403
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe ROCm logprob backend adds cached validation, reusable packed gather buffers, and fused collective processing. The integration passes validation and rollout cache options. MFMA selection adds Qwen3-8B TP4 decode configurations with expanded warmup coverage and tests. ChangesROCm logprob execution
MFMA decode configuration
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participant LinearLogp
participant RocmVocabParallelLogprobOp
participant GPUCollectives
LinearLogp->>RocmVocabParallelLogprobOp: apply with validated targets and rollout cache option
RocmVocabParallelLogprobOp->>GPUCollectives: validate contract and gather packed statistics
GPUCollectives-->>RocmVocabParallelLogprobOp: partial statistics and target contributions
RocmVocabParallelLogprobOp-->>LinearLogp: logprob results
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ROCm TP rollout execution can hang or produce unreliable graph-backed logprob results under cache divergence or buffer reuse, and the fused gather retains avoidable decode overhead. These issues should be addressed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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rl_engine/kernels/ops/rocm/loss/vocab_parallel_logp.py (1)
265-266: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winStack only the target column instead of the full packed payload.
torch.stack(gathered, dim=0)allocates and copiesworld_size * rows * (2 * max_tiles + 1)fp32 elements on every call. Only the last column is read. Slice the column from each rank tensor first, then stack. The copy drops toworld_size * rowselements. This matters directly for the decode throughput this PR targets.♻️ Proposed refactor
- stacked = torch.stack(gathered, dim=0) - target_logit = stacked[owner, rows, -1] + target_columns = torch.stack([shard_payload[:, -1] for shard_payload in gathered], dim=0) + target_logit = target_columns[owner, rows]🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@rl_engine/kernels/ops/rocm/loss/vocab_parallel_logp.py`:
- Around line 163-170: The preflight cache check in the loss computation must
not let ranks independently skip the collective; update the flow around
_VERIFIED_PREFLIGHT_CACHE and the all_gather_into_tensor preflight so every TP
rank participates on each call, or coordinate cache validation across ranks
before returning. If retaining the cache, replace id(tp_group) in cache_key with
tuple(torch.distributed.get_process_group_ranks(tp_group)) so destroyed-group
identifiers cannot be reused.
- Around line 110-118: Update the `_LOGP_GATHER_CACHE` access and gather
execution to prevent concurrent calls with the same key from reusing mutable
`(local, gathered)` buffers; serialize the relevant allocation and collective
use. Ensure buffers captured by the ROCm full-graph path remain strongly
referenced and are excluded from `_METADATA_CACHE_LIMIT` LRU eviction, while
preserving eviction for uncaptured entries.
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In `@rl_engine/kernels/ops/rocm/loss/vocab_parallel_logp.py`:
- Around line 265-266: Update the gathering logic before target_logit so each
tensor in gathered is sliced to its final column before stacking, then preserve
the existing owner and rows indexing against the resulting stacked target-column
tensor. Avoid stacking the full packed payload and retain the same output
values.
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| cached = _LOGP_GATHER_CACHE.get(key) | ||
| if cached is None: | ||
| width = 2 * max_tiles + 1 | ||
| local = torch.empty((rows, width), dtype=torch.float32, device=device) | ||
| gathered = [torch.empty_like(local) for _ in range(world_size)] | ||
| cached = (local, gathered) | ||
| _LOGP_GATHER_CACHE[key] = cached | ||
| if len(_LOGP_GATHER_CACHE) > _METADATA_CACHE_LIMIT: | ||
| _LOGP_GATHER_CACHE.popitem(last=False) |
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PyTorch CUDA Graphs tensors allocated before capture lifetime graph replay memory address allocator documentation
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PyTorch CUDA Graphs: tensors and memory addresses allocated before capture (and kept alive) must remain valid and stable for the lifetime of the captured/replayed graph. PyTorch ensures this for allocations made during capture by using a separate “graph-private” memory pool that doesn’t free/return those blocks to the normal caching allocator until the graph is done, preventing the caching allocator from reusing the same addresses during replay. 1) Why “allocated before capture” tensors must have stable lifetime - CUDA Graph capture “bakes in” the addresses of GPU memory pointers used during capture, so those memory regions must remain valid and unchanged when you replay the graph. The NVIDIA integration docs explicitly list “Memory addresses” and require static graph inputs using the same tensor objects (e.g., update via.copy_ instead of reassigning) to keep addresses fixed across replays [1]. - PyTorch’s graph API also provides debugging support for this exact issue: torch.cuda.graphs.graph has an option check_input_liveness; when True it tracks external tensor inputs during graph capture and raises an error if any are deallocated before replay, helping diagnose “use after free” between capture and replay [2]. 2) What PyTorch’s caching allocator does with memory allocated during capture - PyTorch uses a dedicated private memory pool for CUDA Graph allocations. During capture, memory is allocated/freed via this pool as if eager execution; during replay, PyTorch replays just the recorded kernels and the allocator state does not change [3][4]. - Internally, the allocator documentation/comments state the core correctness reason: because capture bakes in memory addresses, allocations used during capture must be available for replay; to guarantee that, “DeviceAllocator satisfies allocations from a graph-private memory pool during capture, and doesn’t begin cudaFreeing those addresses until the graph is destroyed” [5]. 3) Replay behavior and allocator “address stability” guarantee - With the private pool approach, the allocator won’t reuse captured addresses during graph replay, since those blocks are reserved away from the main caching pools until the graph is destroyed (or otherwise released safely). The allocator comment notes that graph-private pools reserve their high-water mark of used memory away from default pools as long as captures served by that pool survive [5]. - NVIDIA’s integration docs summarize the consequence: this separation ensures “memory addresses allocated during capture remain alive and stable throughout the graph’s lifetime, preventing the caching allocator from reusing those addresses” [1]. 4) Documentation pointers: “graph-private pool” and pool handles - torch.cuda.CUDAGraph and torch.cuda.graphs.graph expose a pool parameter / pool handle. The docs describe pool as an opaque token representing this graph’s memory pool and note it can be used to hint memory sharing between captures [6][7]. - The underlying graphs.py docstring defines graph_pool_handle as returning an opaque token representing the id of a graph memory pool, and the pool argument on graph capture APIs as a hint that the capture may share memory with the indicated pool [8]. 5) Practical takeaway (what you should do in code) - Keep input tensors that the graph uses alive from capture through all replays (don’t let them be garbage collected/deallocated). If needed for debugging, enable check_input_liveness [2]. - Reuse the same tensor objects for any “inputs” (update their contents with.copy_ rather than reassigning to a new tensor) so that the underlying memory addresses baked into the graph stay stable [1][9]. Sources used: PyTorch CUDAGraph trees docs [3][4], PyTorch CUDAGraph graph API docs [2][6], PyTorch graph-private pool allocator comments in CUDACachingAllocator.cpp [5], and NVIDIA’s PyTorch CUDA Graph integration/best-practices docs [1][9].
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- 1: https://docs.nvidia.com/dl-cuda-graph/torch-cuda-graph/torch-integration.html
- 2: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/main/generated/torch.cuda.graphs.graph.html
- 3: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/main/user%5Fguide/torch%5Fcompiler/torch.compiler%5Fcudagraph%5Ftrees.html
- 4: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/user_guide/torch_compiler/torch.compiler_cudagraph_trees.md
- 5: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/f688d7a2f7dcb6caf5ded0e1eabedd5a7a6dc43b/c10/cuda/CUDACachingAllocator.cpp
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- 7: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/main/generated/torch.cuda.CUDAGraph.html
- 8: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/0775839db132300772d0d9426ee18d1653b1df30/torch/cuda/graphs.py
- 9: https://docs.nvidia.com/dl-cuda-graph/torch-cuda-graph/best-practices.html
Protect gather buffers from concurrent reuse and graph eviction. _LOGP_GATHER_CACHE stores one mutable (packed, gathered) pair per shape, with no stream or graph ownership. Concurrent calls with the same key can overwrite the buffers while all_gather is using them and produce incorrect logprobs. The ROCm full-graph path captures this list-form collective. Because these buffers are allocated before capture, LRU eviction can release the references required to keep their addresses alive, invalidating graph replay. Serialize access and pin buffers referenced by captured graphs instead of evicting them through the 32-entry LRU.
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In `@rl_engine/kernels/ops/rocm/loss/vocab_parallel_logp.py` around lines 110 -
118, Update the `_LOGP_GATHER_CACHE` access and gather execution to prevent
concurrent calls with the same key from reusing mutable `(local, gathered)`
buffers; serialize the relevant allocation and collective use. Ensure buffers
captured by the ROCm full-graph path remain strongly referenced and are excluded
from `_METADATA_CACHE_LIMIT` LRU eviction, while preserving eviction for
uncaptured entries.
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| cache_key = ( | ||
| id(tp_group), | ||
| _device_key(device), | ||
| digest, | ||
| ) | ||
| if cache_result and cache_key in _VERIFIED_PREFLIGHT_CACHE: | ||
| _VERIFIED_PREFLIGHT_CACHE.move_to_end(cache_key) | ||
| return |
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Yes, torch.distributed.get_process_group_ranks is available in PyTorch 2.4 [1]. It is documented in the official PyTorch 2.4 distributed communication package documentation as a function that retrieves all ranks associated with a specified process group [1]. The function takes a ProcessGroup object as an argument (or uses the default process group if None is provided) and returns a list of global ranks ordered by their group rank [1][2].
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- 1: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.4/distributed.html
- 2: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/distributed.md
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Do not make the preflight collective conditional on rank-local cache state.
cache_preflight=True for rollout calls. If one rank receives a new contract digest while another rank has the old digest cached, only the first rank enters all_gather_into_tensor. The ranks then diverge and can hang instead of raising LogprobContractError. Run the preflight collective on every call, or coordinate the cache key across all TP ranks before skipping it.
id(tp_group) can also be reused after group destruction because the cache does not retain tp_group. Use tuple(torch.distributed.get_process_group_ranks(tp_group)) as the group-membership key if the cache remains.
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In `@rl_engine/kernels/ops/rocm/loss/vocab_parallel_logp.py` around lines 163 -
170, The preflight cache check in the loss computation must not let ranks
independently skip the collective; update the flow around
_VERIFIED_PREFLIGHT_CACHE and the all_gather_into_tensor preflight so every TP
rank participates on each call, or coordinate cache validation across ranks
before returning. If retaining the cache, replace id(tp_group) in cache_key with
tuple(torch.distributed.get_process_group_ranks(tp_group)) so destroyed-group
identifiers cannot be reused.
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Summary
Motivation
The published PR #400 VIME TP4/CP2 performance could not be reproduced from a clean current main checkout. The original experiment workspace contained these uncommitted runtime optimizations. A clean main run remained bitwise exact with fixed M128 CK attention, but rollout throughput was substantially lower.
This PR restores the runtime optimizations while preserving the deterministic arithmetic schedule.
Validation
Workload:
Three-step G11 R/R validation:
Rollout throughput, tokens/GPU/s:
The full patch recovers the historical third-step throughput within 0.5%. The three-step run is a short integration comparison, not a replacement for a multi-seed 200-step benchmark.
Tests:
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