From 7e4cbfe44164e5ca5de32f9a32ccfca0a88dfcca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qiao Longfei Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:25:30 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] update switch kernel documentation (#7597) * update switch_kernel.md * update the demo code * update --- doc/design/switch_kernel.md | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/design/switch_kernel.md b/doc/design/switch_kernel.md index 1846e5d9f99..9719e031c70 100644 --- a/doc/design/switch_kernel.md +++ b/doc/design/switch_kernel.md @@ -1,21 +1,24 @@ ## Background -Every operator has many kernels because there are multiple data types, places, data layout that Fluid supports. We use the `KernelType` to describe kernel types that operators can hold. +Every operator has many kernels because there are multiple data types, places, data layout, library type that Fluid supports. We use the `OpKernelType ` to describe kernel types that operators can hold. -The `KernelType` is as follows. +The `OpKernelType ` is as follows: -``` -struct KernelType { +```cpp +struct OpKernelType { Place place_; DataType data_type_; - LayoutType layout_; + DataLayout data_layout_; + LibraryType library_type_; }; ``` -The `place_` is a descriptor of the device and the computational library, e.g., `MKLDNNPlace`, `CUDAPlace`. +- The `place_` is a descriptor of the device, e.g., CPUPlace, CUDAPlace. -The `data_type_` is the data type that this kernel performs on, e.g., `FP32`, `INT64`. Note that one kernel may have inputs with different data types. However, it will be a major `data_type`. For example, the `cross_entropy` takes `int64` as it label, and `double`/`float` as its input logit and output cost. The major `data_type` of `cross_entropy` is `float`/`double`. +- The `data_type_` is the data type that this kernel performs on, e.g., `FP32`, `INT64`. Note that one kernel may have inputs with different data types. However, it will be a major `data_type`. For example, the `cross_entropy` takes `int64` as it label, and `double`/`float` as its input logit and output cost. The major `data_type` of `cross_entropy` is `float` or `double`. -The `layout` is useful for some computational library. One example is that MKLDNN uses many kinds of layout, such as `nChw8c`. Each kind of layout will invoke the different kernel. +- The `data_layout_ ` is useful for some computational library. One example is that MKLDNN uses many kinds of layout, such as `nChw8c`. Each kind of layout will invoke the different kernel. + +- The `library_type_` describes the computational library, e.g., `MKLDNN`, `CUDNN`. ## Problem @@ -25,42 +28,72 @@ We register a kernel for every operator and every kernel type ideally. However, 2. Some operators will take too many memory. It is better to force them into CPU. However, the rest of operators in this neural network will be performed on GPU, i.e., model parallel problem. 3. Some layout and place are particular. One example is that MKLDNN uses `nChw8` and there is no other library uses `nChw8c`. -Problems under these situations are similar. We can formalise this problem as follow. +Take one situation to give a detailed explanation, if we have two Operators: OP1 and OP2, OP1 has one output `op1_to_op2`, and `op1_to_op2` is the input of OP2. + +If OP1 and OP2 run on the same place(for example CPUPlace), then `op1_2_op2` can be used directly by OP2. + +``` +OP1(CPUPlace) + | + op1_2_op2 + | +OP2(CPUPlace) +``` + +If OP1 and OP2 run one different place, then OP2 cannot `use op1_2_op2` directly. + +Problems under these situations are similar. We can formalize this problem as follow. We register kernels with types $KT = \{kt_1, kt_2, kt_3, ...\}$ for one operator. The inputs of this operator should be run on kernel type $kt_{?}$, which the $kt_{?} \notin KT$. How to cast the input of this operator from $kt_{?}$ to any of kernel type in $KT$. -## Solution +## Solution: data transform -It is clearly that transforming inputs of an operator toadapt another kernel type is not related to the particular operator. So we should register these transformation methods as global methods. +It is clear that transforming inputs of an operator to adapt another kernel type is not related to the particular operator. So we should register these transformation methods as global methods. -We can infer a kernel type from the inputs of an operators. We let this kernel type as `actual kernel type`, which means this kernel type is the actually kernel type that operator should be performed. +We can infer kernel type for each input of an operator. We let this kernel type as `actual kernel type for var`, which means this kernel type is the kernel type that can process this input variable. We can get a kernel type by 1) The configuration of operator description. (Users may want to force use `MKL` for `conv` operator). 2) The place of the current executor. (Executor is running on GPU). This kernel type is what we expect the operator will be performed on. We let this kernel type as `expect kernel type`. -We transform the input data from `actual` to `expect` if the expect kernel type is not as same as actual kernel type. +We transform the input data from `actual` to `expect` if the actual kernel type is not as same as expect kernel type. -The algorithm is described as follow +The algorithm is described as following ```cpp -using DataTransformationFN = std::function; -using KernelTypePair = std::pair; - -map g_data_transformation_; - -void OpWithKernel::Run() { - vec inputs = ... - auto actual_kernel_type = GetActualKernelType(inputs); - - // The expected kernel type is related to actual kernel type. - // For the most operators, the expected kernel type is as same as - // actual kernel type. - // - // So we pass `actual_kernel_type` as a parameter of - // GetExpectedKernelType - auto expect_kernel_type = GetExpectedKernelType(actual_kernel_type); - - auto trans = g_data_transformation_[{actual_kernel_type, expect_kernel_type}]; - - kernel.run(trans(inputs)); +void OperatorWithKernel::Run( + const Scope& scope, + const platform::Place& place) const { + ExecutionContext ctx(...); + auto expected_kernel_key = this->GetExpectedKernelType(ctx); + + Scope& new_scope = scope.NewScope(); + + for (auto& var_name : this->Inputs()) { + auto* tensor_in = GetTensor(var_name); + auto kernel_type_for_var = this->GetKernelTypeForVar(...); + if (kernel_type_for_var.place_ != expected_kernel_key.place_) { + auto* trans_var = new_scope.Var(var_name); + auto* out = DataTransform(expected_kernel_key, + kernel_type_for_var, + *tensor_in); + CopyVariableWithTensor(...); + } + } + + auto kernel = kernels.find(expected_kernel_key); + kernel->Compute(ExecutionContext(...)); } ``` + +then the actual process for the multi-device above will be: + +``` +OP1(CPUPlace) + | +op1_2_op2(on CPU) + | +[transform](from CPU to GPU) + | +op1_2_op2(on GPU) + | +OP2(CUDAPlace) +``` -- GitLab