Merge pull request #11585 from Yancey1989/fix_pserver_sub_blocks

fix pserver sub-blocks

paddle/fluid/framework/framework.proto

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ enum AttrType {
   BOOLEANS = 7;
   BLOCK = 8;
   LONG = 9;
+  BLOCKS = 10;
 }
 
 // OpDesc describes an instance of a C++ framework::OperatorBase
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ message OpDesc {
     repeated bool bools = 11;
     optional int32 block_idx = 12;
     optional int64 l = 13;
+    repeated int32 blocks_idx = 14;
   };
 
   message Var {

paddle/fluid/framework/op_desc.cc

@@ -211,6 +211,12 @@ void OpDesc::SetBlockAttr(const std::string &name, BlockDesc *block) {
   need_update_ = true;
 }
 
+void OpDesc::SetBlocksAttr(const std::string &name,
+                           std::vector<BlockDesc *> blocks) {
+  this->attrs_[name] = blocks;
+  need_update_ = true;
+}
+
 void OpDesc::SetAttrMap(
     const std::unordered_map<std::string, Attribute> &attr_map) {
   attrs_ = attr_map;
@@ -305,6 +311,13 @@ struct SetAttrDescVisitor : public boost::static_visitor<void> {
   void operator()(const std::vector<bool> &v) const {
     VectorToRepeated(v, attr_->mutable_bools());
   }
+  void operator()(const std::vector<BlockDesc *> &v) const {
+    std::vector<int> blocks_idx;
+    for (auto blk : v) {
+      blocks_idx.push_back(blk->ID());
+    }
+    VectorToRepeated(blocks_idx, attr_->mutable_blocks_idx());
+  }
   void operator()(BlockDesc *desc) const { attr_->set_block_idx(desc->ID()); }
   void operator()(int64_t v) const { attr_->set_l(v); }
   void operator()(boost::blank) const { PADDLE_THROW("Unexpected branch"); }

paddle/fluid/framework/op_desc.h

@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ class OpDesc {
 
   void SetBlockAttr(const std::string &name, BlockDesc *block);
 
+  void SetBlocksAttr(const std::string &name, std::vector<BlockDesc *> blocks);
+
   Attribute GetAttr(const std::string &name) const;
 
   Attribute GetNullableAttr(const std::string &name) const;

paddle/fluid/framework/type_defs.h

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ using VariableNameMap = std::map<std::string, std::vector<std::string>>;
 using Attribute =
     boost::variant<boost::blank, int, float, std::string, std::vector<int>,
                    std::vector<float>, std::vector<std::string>, bool,
-                   std::vector<bool>, BlockDesc*, int64_t>;
+                   std::vector<bool>, BlockDesc*, int64_t,
+                   std::vector<BlockDesc*>>;
 
 using AttributeMap = std::unordered_map<std::string, Attribute>;
 

paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.cc

@@ -101,17 +101,16 @@ void ListenAndServOp::RunSyncLoop(
     framework::Scope *recv_scope,
     const std::vector<int> &prefetch_block_id_list) const {
   size_t num_blocks = program->Size();
+  auto optimize_blocks =
+      Attr<std::vector<framework::BlockDesc *>>(kOptimizeBlocks);
   PADDLE_ENFORCE_GE(num_blocks, 2,
                     "server program should have at least 2 blocks");
 
-  std::vector<int> optimize_block_id_list;
-  for (int blkid = 1; blkid < num_blocks; ++blkid) {
-    if (std::find(prefetch_block_id_list.begin(), prefetch_block_id_list.end(),
-                  blkid) == prefetch_block_id_list.end()) {
-      optimize_block_id_list.push_back(blkid);
+  std::vector<int> optimize_blocks_idx;
+  for (auto blk : optimize_blocks) {
+    optimize_blocks_idx.push_back(blk->ID());
   }
-  }
-  auto optimize_prepared = executor->Prepare(*program, optimize_block_id_list);
+  auto optimize_prepared = executor->Prepare(*program, optimize_blocks_idx);
   // Insert placeholder for block0 which holds current op itself.
   optimize_prepared.insert(
       optimize_prepared.begin(),
@@ -134,14 +133,14 @@ void ListenAndServOp::RunSyncLoop(
     // and this will still work.
     // The optimize blocks which have the same parent ID would run parallel
     // TODO(Yancey1989): need to use ParallelExecutor for future
-    int32_t last_parent_blkid = program->Block(1).Parent();
+    int32_t last_parent_blkid = optimize_blocks[0]->Parent();
     std::vector<size_t> parallel_blkids;
-    parallel_blkids.push_back(1);
+    parallel_blkids.push_back(optimize_blocks[0]->ID());
     double ts = GetTimestamp();
-    for (size_t i = 1; i < optimize_block_id_list.size(); ++i) {
+    for (size_t i = 1; i < optimize_blocks.size(); ++i) {
       // skip the first optimize block because it is already in the
       // parallel_blkids.
-      int blkid = optimize_block_id_list[i];
+      int blkid = optimize_blocks[i]->ID();
       if (program->Block(blkid).Parent() != last_parent_blkid) {
         ParallelExecuteBlocks(parallel_blkids, executor, optimize_prepared,
                               program, recv_scope);
@@ -259,8 +258,11 @@ void ListenAndServOp::RunImpl(const framework::Scope &scope,
   rpc_service_->RegisterRPC(distributed::kRequestPrefetch,
                             request_prefetch_handler_.get());
 
-  auto *optimize_block = Attr<framework::BlockDesc *>(kOptimizeBlock);
-  auto *program = optimize_block->Program();
+  auto optimize_blocks =
+      Attr<std::vector<framework::BlockDesc *>>(kOptimizeBlocks);
+  PADDLE_ENFORCE(optimize_blocks.size() >= 1,
+                 "optimize blocks should be 1 at least on the pserver side.");
+  auto *program = optimize_blocks[0]->Program();
   framework::Executor executor(dev_place);
 
   // prepare for prefetch
@@ -337,8 +339,9 @@ class ListenAndServOpMaker : public framework::OpProtoAndCheckerMaker {
         "a map from grad name to it's optimize block id")
         .SetDefault({});
     AddAttr<bool>("sync_mode", "if works at sync_mode or not").SetDefault(true);
-    AddAttr<framework::BlockDesc *>(kOptimizeBlock,
-                                    "BlockID to run on server side.");
+    AddAttr<std::vector<framework::BlockDesc *>>(
+        kOptimizeBlocks, "Optimize blocks to run on server side.")
+        .SetDefault({});
     AddAttr<std::vector<std::string>>(kPrefetchVarNameToBlockId,
                                       "prefetch blocks to run on server side.")
         .SetDefault({});

paddle/fluid/operators/listen_and_serv_op.h

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ limitations under the License. */
 namespace paddle {
 namespace operators {
 
-constexpr char kOptimizeBlock[] = "OptimizeBlock";
+constexpr char kOptimizeBlocks[] = "optimize_blocks";
 constexpr char kPrefetchVarNameToBlockId[] = "prefetch_var_name_to_block_id";
 
 void RunServer(std::shared_ptr<distributed::RPCServer> service);

paddle/fluid/operators/send_recv_op_test.cc

@@ -129,7 +129,10 @@ void StartServerNet(bool is_sparse, std::atomic<bool> *initialized) {
   // sub program run in listen_and_serv_op, for simple test we use sum
   f::ProgramDesc program;
   const auto &root_block = program.Block(0);
+  std::vector<framework::BlockDesc *> optimize_blocks;
   auto *optimize_block = program.AppendBlock(root_block);
+  optimize_blocks.push_back(optimize_block);
+
   auto *prefetch_block = program.AppendBlock(root_block);
   // X for server side tensors, RX for received tensors, must be of same shape.
   AddOp("sum", {{"X", {"x0", "x1"}}}, {{"Out", {"Out"}}}, {}, optimize_block,
@@ -139,7 +142,7 @@ void StartServerNet(bool is_sparse, std::atomic<bool> *initialized) {
   attrs.insert({"Fanin", 1});
   attrs.insert({"ParamList", std::vector<std::string>({"Out"})});
   attrs.insert({"GradList", std::vector<std::string>({"x1"})});
-  attrs.insert({"OptimizeBlock", optimize_block});
+  attrs.insert({"optimize_blocks", optimize_blocks});
   attrs.insert({"PrefetchBlock", prefetch_block});
   attrs.insert({"grad_to_block_id", std::vector<std::string>({""})});
   attrs.insert({"sync_mode", true});

paddle/fluid/pybind/protobuf.cc

@@ -268,7 +268,8 @@ void BindOpDesc(pybind11::module *m) {
       .value("STRINGS", pd::proto::AttrType::STRINGS)
       .value("BOOL", pd::proto::AttrType::BOOLEAN)
       .value("BOOLS", pd::proto::AttrType::BOOLEANS)
-      .value("BLOCK", pd::proto::AttrType::BLOCK);
+      .value("BLOCK", pd::proto::AttrType::BLOCK)
+      .value("BLOCKS", pd::proto::AttrType::BLOCKS);
 
   pybind11::class_<pd::OpDesc> op_desc(*m, "OpDesc", "");
   op_desc
@@ -293,6 +294,7 @@ void BindOpDesc(pybind11::module *m) {
       .def("set_attr", &pd::OpDesc::SetAttr)
       .def("attr", &pd::OpDesc::GetAttr)
       .def("set_block_attr", &pd::OpDesc::SetBlockAttr)
+      .def("set_blocks_attr", &pd::OpDesc::SetBlocksAttr)
       .def("set_serialized_attr",
            [](pd::OpDesc &self, const std::string &name,
               const pybind11::bytes &seriralized) {

python/paddle/fluid/framework.py

@@ -558,15 +558,20 @@ class Operator(object):
                 if (attr_name not in self.attrs) or (
                         self.attrs[attr_name] is None):
                     continue
-                if isinstance(self.attrs[attr_name], Block):
+                attr_val = self.attrs[attr_name]
+                if isinstance(attr_val, Block):
                     self.desc.set_block_attr(attr_name,
                                              self.attrs[attr_name].desc)
-                elif isinstance(self.attrs[attr_name], core.BlockDesc) or \
-                        isinstance(self.attrs[attr_name], core.ProgramDesc):
+                elif isinstance(attr_val, list) and attr_val and \
+                      all(isinstance(v, Block) for v in attr_val):
+                    self.desc.set_blocks_attr(attr_name,
+                                              [v.desc for v in attr_val])
+                elif isinstance(attr_val, core.BlockDesc) or \
+                        isinstance(attr_val, core.ProgramDesc):
                     self.desc.set_serialized_attr(
-                        attr_name, self.attrs[attr_name].serialize_to_string())
+                        attr_name, attr_val.serialize_to_string())
                 else:
-                    self.desc.set_attr(attr_name, self.attrs[attr_name])
+                    self.desc.set_attr(attr_name, attr_val)
         self.desc.check_attrs()
         if self.has_kernel(type):
             self.desc.infer_var_type(self.block.desc)
@@ -715,6 +720,9 @@ class Operator(object):
         self.attrs[name] = val
         if isinstance(val, Block):
             self.desc.set_block_attr(name, val.desc)
+        elif isinstance(val, list) and val and all(
+                isinstance(v, Block) for v in val):
+            self.desc.set_blocks_attr(name, [v.desc for v in val])
         elif isinstance(val, core.BlockDesc) or \
                 isinstance(val, core.ProgramDesc):
             self.desc.set_serialized_attr(name, val.serialize_to_string())

python/paddle/fluid/layers/io.py

@@ -186,7 +186,6 @@ class ListenAndServ(object):
         main_program = self.helper.main_program
         current_block = main_program.current_block()
         parent_block = self.parent_block()
-        empty_block = Program().global_block()
 
         parent_block.append_op(
             type='listen_and_serv',
@@ -195,8 +194,9 @@ class ListenAndServ(object):
             attrs={
                 'endpoint': self.endpoint,
                 'Fanin': self.fan_in,
-                'OptimizeBlock': current_block,
-                'PrefetchBlock': empty_block,
+                'optimize_blocks': [
+                    current_block
+                ],  # did not support multiple optimize blocks in layers
                 'sync_mode': True,  # did not support async now in layers
                 'grad_to_block_id': [""]
             })

python/paddle/fluid/transpiler/distribute_transpiler.py

@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ class DistributeTranspiler(object):
                     return varname
             return ""
 
-        def __clone_lr_op_sub_block__(op, program, new_block):
+        def __clone_lr_op_sub_block__(op, program, lr_block):
             if not op.has_attr('sub_block'):
                 return
 
@@ -405,36 +405,41 @@ class DistributeTranspiler(object):
             assert isinstance(origin_block, Block)
             # we put the new sub block to new block to follow the block
             # hierarchy of the original blocks
-            new_sub_block = program.create_block(new_block.idx)
+            new_sub_block = program.create_block(lr_block.idx)
 
             # clone vars
             for var in origin_block.vars:
                 new_sub_block.clone_variable(var)
 
             # clone ops
-            for op in origin_block.ops:
-                self._clone_lr_op(program, new_sub_block, op)
+            for origin_op in origin_block.ops:
+                cloned_op = self._clone_lr_op(program, new_sub_block, origin_op)
                 # clone sub_block of op
-                __clone_lr_op_sub_block__(op, program, new_sub_block)
+                __clone_lr_op_sub_block__(cloned_op, program, new_sub_block)
 
             # reset the block of op
             op.set_attr('sub_block', new_sub_block)
 
         # append lr decay ops to the child block if exists
         lr_ops = self._get_lr_ops()
+        # record optimize blocks and we can run them on pserver parallel
+        optimize_blocks = []
         if len(lr_ops) > 0:
             lr_decay_block = pserver_program.create_block(
                 pserver_program.num_blocks - 1)
+            optimize_blocks.append(lr_decay_block)
             for _, op in enumerate(lr_ops):
-                self._append_pserver_non_opt_ops(lr_decay_block, op)
+                cloned_op = self._append_pserver_non_opt_ops(lr_decay_block, op)
                 # append sub blocks to pserver_program in lr_decay_op
-                __clone_lr_op_sub_block__(op, pserver_program, lr_decay_block)
+                __clone_lr_op_sub_block__(cloned_op, pserver_program,
+                                          lr_decay_block)
 
         # append op to the current block
         grad_to_block_id = []
         pre_block_idx = pserver_program.num_blocks - 1
         for idx, opt_op in enumerate(opt_op_on_pserver):
             per_opt_block = pserver_program.create_block(pre_block_idx)
+            optimize_blocks.append(per_opt_block)
             # append grad merging ops before clip and weight decay
             for _, op in enumerate(self.optimize_ops):
                 # find the origin @GRAD var before clipping
@@ -453,6 +458,7 @@ class DistributeTranspiler(object):
         if global_ops:
             opt_state_block = pserver_program.create_block(
                 pserver_program.num_blocks - 1)
+            optimize_blocks.append(opt_state_block)
             for glb_op in global_ops:
                 __append_optimize_op__(glb_op, opt_state_block,
                                        grad_to_block_id, None)
@@ -474,11 +480,11 @@ class DistributeTranspiler(object):
             assert len(prefetch_var_name_to_block_id) == 0
 
         attrs = {
-            "OptimizeBlock": pserver_program.block(1),
+            "optimize_blocks": optimize_blocks,
             "endpoint": endpoint,
             "Fanin": self.trainer_num,
             "sync_mode": self.sync_mode,
-            "grad_to_block_id": grad_to_block_id
+            "grad_to_block_id": grad_to_block_id,
         }
         if len(prefetch_var_name_to_block_id) > 0:
             attrs['prefetch_var_name_to_block_id'] \
@@ -1211,7 +1217,7 @@ class DistributeTranspiler(object):
                 if var not in program.global_block().vars:
                     block.clone_variable(var)
 
-        block.append_op(
+        return block.append_op(
             type=op.type, inputs=inputs, outputs=outputs, attrs=op.attrs)
 
     def _append_pserver_non_opt_ops(self, optimize_block, opt_op):
@@ -1249,7 +1255,7 @@ class DistributeTranspiler(object):
                 elif not program.global_block().vars.has_key(var.name):
                     program.global_block().clone_variable(var)
 
-        optimize_block.append_op(
+        return optimize_block.append_op(
             type=opt_op.type,
             inputs=inputs,
             outputs=outputs,