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Meet Vadakkanchery fdee60769a [DCP] Introduce process based async checkpointing (#147039) 
Summary:
### Context
Background checkpoint upload thread interfering with trainer thread:

In [async save API](https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/torch/distributed/checkpoint/state_dict_saver.py#L239-L248), the background thread spends a considerable amount of time on CPU-bound tasks (pickling/unpickling several metada objects a.k.a SavePlans) on rank0 during the collective operation; this kind of asymmetric computation heavily contends for GIL with the trainer thread causing GPU util to suffer significantly for the E2E checkpoint duration.

### Solution:
Introduce async save via a checkpoint daemon process. This daemon process will be created once (during the first save attempt) and can serve async checkpoint requests for the remainder of training lifetime.

Test Plan: Added E2E UTs for process based async save.

Differential Revision: D69272583

Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/147039
Approved by: https://github.com/saumishr
2025-03-04 13:33:28 +00:00
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