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Summary: Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/74261 ### Goal Implement a cheap way to reclaim GPU memory (garbage collection) without incurring GPU sync. ### Why do we need this? Currently, there are only two ways to reclaim GPU memory block already assigned to a particular stream. - `release_available_cached_blocks(params)`: Free blocks exceeding the `CachingAllocatorConfig::max_split_size()` until we can satisfy the request. Issue: If the `max_split_size` is unset (default), this function is a no-op. Even if this is set, the reclamation is quite conservative (e.g., never frees blocks under max_split_size). - `release_cached_blocks()`: Waits for all the in-flight events and then reclaim blocks. Issue: 'waiting for all event' is very expensive as it will likely stall all the GPU operations. Many GPU applications without a proper handling of potential GPU throttling would suffer/crash. ### Proposed idea - If the garbage collection threshold is set, try to reclaim some memory blocks *without* synchronization. It should be safe to do so, as `release_available_cached_blocks` essentially does the same thing (but less aggressively). - GC is triggered only when we fail to serve a `malloc` request from the block pool. No need to free blocks when the block pool is functioning just fine. - Prioritize reclaiming blocks that weren't reused for long time. Reclamation stops once the used memory capacity < threshold. - This code path is totally optional; by default it won't be invoked. Test Plan: - Unit tests - Manually checked that the GPU memory usage stays as indicated by the garbage collector. If not the caching allocator at least tries to keep freeing the blocks. Reviewed By: jianyuh Differential Revision: D34482514 fbshipit-source-id: d5eae62ac60b94b0bca851f9d233a092d086e3c2 (cherry picked from commit 05780f1ed4b176f05e765b2411c9eaa2eaeb48b0) |
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