Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyangfb.com>
From @ezyang's original PR:
There are a number of situations where we have non-backend kernels (e.g., CompositeImplicitAutograd, batching rules) which we would like to port to Python, but we have no way to integrate these ports with the overall system while using preexisting C++ registrations otherwise. This PR changes that by introducing a Python dispatcher (which can have its own kernels directly in Python), which can be interpose over ordinary C++ dispatch. The ingredients:
We introduce a new PythonDispatcher dispatch key, that has the same tenor as FuncTorchDynamicLayerFrontMode: it works by getting triggered before every other dispatch key in the dispatch key, and shunting to a Python implementation
The Python dispatcher is a per-interpreter global object that is enabled/disabled via the guard EnablePythonDispatcher/DisablePythonDispatcher. We don't make it compositional as I have no idea what a compositional version of this feature would look like. Because it is global, we don't need to memory manage it and so I use a simpler SafePyHandle (newly added) to control access to this pointer from non-Python C++. Like __torch_dispatch__, we use PyInterpreter to get to the Python interpreter to handle the dispatch.
I need to reimplement dispatch table computation logic in Python. To do this, I expose a lot more helper functions for doing computations on alias dispatch keys and similar. I also improve the pybind11 handling for DispatchKey so that you can either accept the pybind11 bound enum or a string; this simplifies our binding code. See https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/483#issuecomment-1237418106 for how this works; the technique is generally useful.
I need to be able to call backend fallbacks. I do this by permitting you to call at a dispatch key which doesn't have a kernel for the operator; if the kernel doesn't exist, we check the backend fallback table instead.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@fb.com>
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/84826
Approved by: https://github.com/ezyang
I realized that we can deal with the dead vtable problem by...
introducing another indirection! The resulting code is worse
(you have to do one more dereference to get to the vtable), but
the reduction in boilerplate is, IMO, worth it.
I did this refactor because I'm about to add a lot more methods
to PyInterpreter to handle expunging SymInt from TensorImpl.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@fb.com>
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/84388
Approved by: https://github.com/albanD
The pattern of a PyObject* bundled with a PyInterpreter* is pretty
useful in many contexts (e.g., TorchDispatchTypeObject) so I have turned
it into a dedicated class SafePyObject. In the process I fixed a
bug with the old TorchDispatchTypeObject (copy constructor/assignment
was not deleted), made the API more safe (retrieving the PyObject*
pointer requires verification that the PyInterpreter* matches) and
fixed some minor inefficiencies in C++ code.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyangfb.com>
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/75142
Approved by: https://github.com/zou3519
