[cfe-dev] Heterogeneous target attributes overloading in Clang CUDA (__CUDA_ARCH__ considered harmful)
Artem Belevich via cfe-dev
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Nov 7 11:47:49 PST 2018
Hi, Bryce,
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 6:04 PM Bryce Lelbach via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Today, CUDA C++ has a macro that can be used to distinguish which
> architecture
> (either the host architecture, a specific device architecture, or any
> device
> architecture) code is currently being compiled for.
>
> When CUDA code is compiled for the host, __CUDA_ARCH__ is not defined.
> When it
> is compiled for the device, it is defined to a value that indicates the SM
> architecture.
>
> At face value, this seems like a useful way to customize how heterogeneous
> code
> is implemented on a particular architecture:
>
> __host__ __device__
> uint32_t iadd3(uint32_t x, uint32_t y, uint32_t z) {
> #if __CUDA_ARCH__ >= 200
> asm ("vadd.u32.u32.u32.add %0, %1, %2, %3;" : "=r"(x) : "r"(x),
> "r"(y), "r"(z));
> #else
> x = x + y + z;
> #endif
> return x;
> }
>
> However, __CUDA_ARCH__ is only well suited to a split compilation CUDA
> compiler,
> like NVCC, which uses a separate host compiler (GCC, Clang, MSVC, etc) and
> device
> compiler, preprocessing and compiling your code once for each target
> architecture
> (once for the host, and one time for each target device architecture).
>
> __CUDA_ARCH__ has some caveats, however. The NVCC compiler has to see all
> kernel
> function declarations (e.g. __global__ functions) during both host and
> device
> compilation, to generate the host side launch stubs and the actual device
> side
> kernel code. Otherwise, NVCC may not compile the device side kernel code,
> either
> because it believes it is unused or because it is never instantiated (in
> the case
> of a template kernel function). This, regretably, will not fail at compile
> time,
> but instead fails at runtime when you attempt to launch the (non-existant)
> kernel.
>
> Consider the following code. It unconditionally calls
> `parallel::reduce_n_impl`
> on the host, which instantiates some (unseen) template kernel functions
> during
> host compilation. However, in device code, if THRUST_HAS_CUDART is false,
> `parallel::reduce_n_impl` is never instantiated and the actual device code
> for
> the kernel functions are never compiled.
>
> #if !defined(__CUDA_ARCH__) || (__CUDA_ARCH__>= 350 &&
> defined(__CUDACC_RDC__))
> // We're either not compiling as device code, or we are compiling as
> device
> // code and we can launch kernels from device code (SM 3.5 and higher
> +
> // relocatable device code is required for the device side runtime
> which is
> // needed to do device side launches).
> # define THRUST_HAS_CUDART 1
> #else
> # define THRUST_HAS_CUDART 0
> #endif
>
> namespace thrust {
>
> #pragma nv_exec_check_disable
> template <typename Derived,
> typename InputIt,
> typename Size,
> typename T,
> typename BinaryOp>
> __host__ __device__
> T reduce_n(execution_policy<Derived>& policy,
> InputIt first,
> Size num_items,
> T init,
> BinaryOp binary_op)
> {
> // Broken version:
> #if THRUST_HAS_CUDART
> return system::cuda::reduce_n_impl(policy, first, num_items, init,
> binary_op);
> #else
> // We are running on the device and there is no device side runtime,
> so we
> // can't launch a kernel to do the reduction in parallel. Instead,
> we just
> // do a sequential reduction in the calling thread.
> return system::sequential::reduce_n_impl(first, num_items, init,
> binary_op);
> #endif
> }
>
> } // namespace thrust
>
>
CUDA programming guide says "don't do it":
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/index.html#cuda-arch-macro
"If a __global__ function template is instantiated and launched from the
host, then the function template must be instantiated with the same
template arguments irrespective of whether __CUDA_ARCH__ is defined and
regardless of the value of __CUDA_ARCH__."
So, yes, you shouldn't do it with nvcc.
> Instead, we end up using the rather odd pattern of adding a
> (non-constexpr) if
> statement whose condition is known at compile time. This ensures the
> kernel function
> is instantiated during device compilation, even though it is not actually
> used.
> Fortunately, while NVCC can as-if optimize away the if statement, it
> cannot treat
> the instantiation as unused.
>
> #pragma nv_exec_check_disable
> template <typename Derived,
> typename InputIt,
> typename Size,
> typename T,
> typename BinaryOp>
> __host__ __device__
> T reduce_n(execution_policy<Derived>& policy,
> InputIt first,
> Size num_items,
> T init,
> BinaryOp binary_op)
> {
> if (THRUST_HAS_CUDART)
> return parallel::reduce_n_impl(policy, first, num_items, init,
> binary_op);
>
> #if !THRUST_HAS_CUDART
> // We are running on the device and there is no device side runtime,
> so we
> // can't launch a kernel to do the reduction in parallel. Instead,
> we just
> // do a sequential reduction in the calling thread.
> return sequential::reduce_n_impl(first, num_items, init, binary_op);
> #endif
> }
>
> For more background, see:
>
> https://github.com/NVlabs/cub/issues/30
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51248770/cuda-arch-flag-with-thrust-execution-policy
>
> For a merged parse CUDA compiler, like Clang CUDA, __CUDA_ARCH__ is a poor
> fit,
> because as a textual macro it can be used to completely change the code
> that
> the compiler consumes during host and device compilation, essentially
> forcing
> separate preprocessing and parsing.
>
Yes. One of the ideas I had was to abandon it altogether, parse the source
once and then codegen host and device IR from the same AST. Alas, the goal
was to compile the existing CUDA code, so we has to keep __CUDA_ARCH__
working and because of that we also have to parse the sources for each host
and device compilation.
If __CUDA_ARCH__ is gone, it would make it possible to do more neat things.
>
> Clang CUDA offers one alternative today, __host__ / __device__ overloading,
> which is better suited to a merged parse model:
>
> __device__
> uint32_t iadd3(uint32_t x, uint32_t y, uint32_t z) {
> asm ("vadd.u32.u32.u32.add %0, %1, %2, %3;" : "=r"(x) : "r"(x),
> "r"(y), "r"(z));
> return x;
> }
>
> __host__
> uint32_t iadd3(uint32_t x, uint32_t y, uint32_t z) {
> return x + y + z;
> }
>
> However, this approach does not allow us to customize code for specific
> device
> architectures. Note that the above code will not compile on SM 1.0
> devices, as
> the inline assembly contains instructions unavailable on those platforms.
>
Correct. But now that we have ability for the source for two different
targets (host&device) to co-exist in principle, it should be relatively
easy to extend it to (host + N devices).
>
> Tuning for specific device architectures is critical for high performance
> CUDA
> libraries, like Thrust. We need to be able to select different algorithms
> and
> use architecture specific facilities to get speed of light performance.
>
> Fortunately, there is some useful prior art. Clang (and GCC) has a related
> feature,
> __attribute__((target("..."))), which can be used to define a function
> "overloaded"
> on the architecture it is compiled for. One common use case for this
> feature is
> implementing functions that utilize micro-architecture specific CPU SIMD
> instructions:
>
> using double4 = double __attribute__((__vector_size__(32)));
>
> __attribute__((target("sse")))
> double4 fma(double4d x, double4 y, double4 z);
>
> __attribute__((target("avx")))
> double4 fma(double4d x, double4 y, double4 z);
>
> __attribute__((target("default")))
> double4 fma(double4d x, double4 y, double4 z); // "Fallback"
> implementation.
>
> This attribute can also be used to target specific architectures:
>
> __attribute__((target("arch=atom")))
> void foo(); // Will be called on 'atom' processors.
>
> __attribute__((target("default")))
> void foo(); // Will be called on any other processors.
>
> This could easily be extended for heterogeneous compilation:
>
> __attribute__((target("host:arch=skylake")))
> void foo();
>
> __attribute__((target("arch=atom")))
> void foo(); // Implicitly "host:arch=atom".
>
> __attribute__((target("host:default")))
> void foo();
>
> __attribute__((target("device:arch=sm_20")))
> void foo();
>
> __attribute__((target("device:arch=sm_60")))
> void foo();
>
> __attribute__((target("device:default")))
> void foo();
>
> Or, perhaps more concisely, we could introduce this shorthand:
>
> __host__("arch=skylake")
> void foo();
>
> __host__
> void foo(); // Implicitly "host:default".
>
> __device__("arch=sm_20")
> void foo();
>
> __device__("arch=sm_60")
> void foo();
>
> __device__ // Implicitly "device:default".
> void foo();
>
>
This could be one way to do it, though __attribute__((target)) has existing
semantics that does not quite match the use case you're proposing. I.e.
currently the intent is to generate the code for a different variant of the
architecture we're compiling for and that it's possible to incorporate the
generated code for all the variants in the TU into the same object file. In
PTX, we can't do the same. I.e. in your example above, we can't incorporate
sm_60 PTX/SASS into the same object file with sm_20.
If I understand your proposal correctly, instead of generating code for
multiple different targets, you want to skip the targets you can't generate
code during particular compilation. I.e. it still implies one compilation
pass per device. If that's the case, then it does not change the current
overloading scheme much as any given compilation will only deal with host +
1 device, and the code targeting incompatible devices would be ignored.
So, Extending __device__ attribute and specializing it for particular
target seems plausible, but it probably should not be based on
__attribute__((target))
> Another place that we use _CUDA_ARCH__ today in Thrust and CUB is in
> metaprogramming code that selects the correct "strategies" that should be
> used to implement a particular algorithm:
>
> enum arch {
> host,
> sm_30, sm_32, sm_35, // Kepler
> sm_50, sm_52, sm_53, // Maxwell
> sm_60, sm_61, sm_62, // Pascal
> sm_70, // Volta
> sm_72, sm_75 // Turing
> };
>
>
> __host__ __device__
> constexpr arch select_arch()
> {
> switch (__CUDA_ARCH__)
> {
> // ...
> };
> }
>
> template <class T, arch Arch = select_arch()>
> struct radix_sort_tuning;
>
> template <class T>
> struct radix_sort_tuning<T, sm_35>
> {
> constexpr size_t INPUT_SIZE = sizeof(T);
>
> constexpr size_t NOMINAL_4B_ITEMS_PER_THREAD = 11;
> constexpr size_t ITEMS_PER_THREAD
> = std::min(NOMIMAL_4B_ITEMS_PER_THREAD,
> std::max(1, (NOMIMAL_4B_ITEMS_PER_THREAD * 4 / INPUT_SIZE)));
>
> constexpr size_t BLOCK_THREADS = 256;
> constexpr auto BLOCK_LOAD_STRATEGY = BLOCK_LOAD_WARP_TRANSPOSE;
> constexpr auto CACHE_LOAD_STRATEGY = LOAD_LDG;
> constexpr auto BLOCK_STORE_STRATEGY = BLOCK_STORE_WARP_TRANSPOSE;
> };
>
> template <typename T>
> struct radix_sort_tuning<T, sm_50> { /* ... */ };
>
> // ...
>
> With heterogeneous target attributes, we could implement select_arch like
> so:
>
> __host__
> constexpr arch select_arch() { return host; }
>
> __device__("arch=sm_30")
> constexpr arch select_arch() { return sm_30; }
>
> __device__("arch=sm_35")
> constexpr arch select_arch() { return sm_35; }
>
> // ...
>
> You could also potentially use this with if constexpr:
>
> void foo()
> {
> // Moral equivalent of #if __CUDA_ARCH__
> if constexpr (host != select_arch())
> // ...
> else
> // ...
> }
>
>
We could probably make select_arch() a constexpr builtin function returning
current compilation target.
> This feature would also make it much easier to port some of the more
> tricky parts
> of libc++ to GPUs, such as iostreams and concurrency primitives.
>
> It would be awesome if we could take __host__ / __device__ overloading a
> step
> further and make it a full fledged replacement for __CUDA_ARCH__. It would
> provide
> a possible future migration path away from __CUDA_ARCH__, which would
> enable us to
> move to true merged parsing for heterogeneous C++: preprocess once, parse
> once,
> perform platform-agnostic optimizations once, code gen multiple times.
>
+100.
> So, questions:
>
> - Can target attributes go on constexpr functions today?
>
Godbolt says yes, but the function is no longer behaves as a constexpr as
it must be dispatched as ifunc: https://godbolt.org/z/64I_SJ
In any case, I don't think target attributes are a good match for this. We
should probably extend 'device' instead.
> - Does anyone have suggestions for how this approach could be improved?
> Alternatives?
>
Perhaps we could consider using SFINAE to specialize device-side functions.
E.g. something along the lines of
enable_if_t<current_arch()==350, void> foo(){sm_35 code;}
enable_if_t<current_arch()==600, void> foo(){sm_60 code;}
> - Is there interest in this in Clang CUDA?
>
This is a very good question.
My (anecdotal) observation is that most of the GPU cycles these days are
spent in the code written by NVIDIA itself. Everybody seems to be writing
wrappers over cuDNN/cuBLAS/cuFFT, so interest in writing howe-grown CUDA
code has diminished a lot -- what's the point if NVIDIA's libraries are
faster and beating it is unlikely.
If we had a GPU back-end which would be capable of generating native GPU
code that can achieve peak performance, that could help resurrecting
interest in writing CUDA code again.
Ironically, it may be AMD that may make this happen. There's been a lot of
progress lately in getting clang to compile HIP (~CUDA) for AMD GPUs and
making it work with TensorFlow.
--Artem
>
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