parallel_executor.py

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import core
import multiprocessing
import framework
import executor

__all__ = ['ParallelExecutor']


class ParallelExecutor(object):
    def __init__(self,
                 use_cuda,
                 loss_name=None,
                 main_program=None,
                 num_threads=None,
                 allow_op_delay=False,
                 share_vars_from=None):
        """
        ParallelExecutor can run program in parallel.

        Args:
            use_cuda(bool): Whether to use CUDA or not.
            loss_name(str, default None): The loss name must set in training.
            main_program(Program, default None): The program that need to run,
                if not provided, then default_main_program will be used.
            num_threads(int, default None): How many threads are used for
                training.
            allow_op_delay(bool, default False): Whether to delay and buffer
                some operators together for scheduling or not, which may
                improve performance in some cases, defalut False.
            share_vars_from(ParallelExecutor, default None): If provied,
                it will share variables from the specified ParallelExecutor.

        Returns:
            A ParallelExecutor object.

        Raises:
            TypeError: If share_vars_from is provided, but not ParallelExecutor
                object.

        Examples:
            .. code-block:: python

              train_exe = fluid.ParallelExecutor(
                  use_cuda=True, loss_name=loss.name)
              test_exe = fluid.ParallelExecutor(
                  use_cuda=True,
                  main_program=test_program,
                  share_vars_from=train_exe)

              train_loss, = train_exe.run([loss.name], feed_dict=feed_dict)
              test_loss, = test_exe.run([loss.name], feed_dict=feed_dict)
        """

        self._places = []
        self._act_places = []
        if use_cuda:
            for i in xrange(core.get_cuda_device_count()):
                p = core.Place()
                self._act_places.append(core.CUDAPlace(i))
                p.set_place(self._act_places[-1])
                self._places.append(p)
        else:
            for i in xrange(multiprocessing.cpu_count()):
                p = core.Place()
                self._act_places.append(core.CPUPlace(i))
                p.set_place(self._act_places[-1])
                self._places.append(p)
        assert self._places, "no place for execution"

        if num_threads is None:
            if use_cuda:
                # Experiments on se-resnext shows that too many threads hurt
                # performance. Worth tunning for other models in the future.
                num_threads = len(self._places)
            else:
                min(len(self._places) * 2, multiprocessing.cpu_count())

        main = main_program
        main = main if main else framework.default_main_program()
        scope = executor.global_scope()

        if share_vars_from and not isinstance(share_vars_from,
                                              ParallelExecutor):
            raise TypeError("share_vars_from must be ParallelExecutor.")
        local_scopes = share_vars_from.executor.local_scopes(
        ) if share_vars_from else []

        self.persistable_vars = [
            v.name
            for v in filter(lambda var: var.persistable, main.list_vars())
        ]

        self.executor = core.ParallelExecutor(
            num_threads,
            True if use_cuda else False,  # use_event
            self._places,
            set([
                p.name for p in main.global_block().iter_parameters()
                if not p.stop_gradient
            ]),
            set(self.persistable_vars),
            main.desc,
            loss_name if loss_name else '',
            scope,
            local_scopes,
            allow_op_delay)
        self.scope = scope

    def run(self, fetch_list, feed_dict={}):
        """
        :param fetch_list: A list of variable names that will be fetched.
        :param feed_dict: A dict mapping for feed variable name to LoDTensor
          or numpy array.
        :return: fetched value list.
        """
        if not isinstance(feed_dict, dict):
            raise TypeError("feed_dict should be a dict")

        feed_tensor_dict = {}
        for i, feed_name in enumerate(feed_dict):
            feed_tensor = feed_dict[feed_name]
            if not isinstance(feed_tensor, core.LoDTensor):
                feed_tensor = core.LoDTensor()
                feed_tensor.set(feed_dict[feed_name], self._act_places[0])
            feed_tensor_dict[feed_name] = feed_tensor

        fetch_var_name = '@FETCHED_VAR_NAME@'
        self.executor.run(fetch_list, fetch_var_name, feed_tensor_dict)
        arr = self.scope.find_var(fetch_var_name).get_lod_tensor_array()
        return [arr[i] for i in range(len(arr))]

    def bcast_params(self):
        self.executor.bcast_params(set(self.persistable_vars))