From c70ea1cc30cfa54228d10e56934119e3a68e3e51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: typhoonzero <typhoonzero1986@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 19:35:52 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] add splitter

---
 .../paddle/v2/fluid/distribute_transpiler.py  |  1 -
 python/paddle/v2/fluid/distributed_spliter.py | 38 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 python/paddle/v2/fluid/distributed_spliter.py

diff --git a/python/paddle/v2/fluid/distribute_transpiler.py b/python/paddle/v2/fluid/distribute_transpiler.py
index e5314cf27..4c90b4a85 100644
--- a/python/paddle/v2/fluid/distribute_transpiler.py
+++ b/python/paddle/v2/fluid/distribute_transpiler.py
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ class DistributeTranspiler:
 
         # step3
         send_inputs = []
-        send_outputs = []
         for _, splited in var2splited.iteritems():
             send_inputs.extend(splited)
         send_outputs = self._create_vars_from_blocklist(program, param_blocks)
diff --git a/python/paddle/v2/fluid/distributed_spliter.py b/python/paddle/v2/fluid/distributed_spliter.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7ba53390
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/paddle/v2/fluid/distributed_spliter.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+def hash_name(varblocks, pserver_endpoints):
+    """
+    :param varblocks: a list of VarBlock string indicating 
+                      sub blocks of variables
+    :return: a map of pserver endpoint -> varblock_str
+    """
+
+    def _hash_block(block_str, total):
+        return hash(block_str) % total
+
+    ep2block = dict()
+    for varblock_str in varblocks:
+        if param.trainable is True and grad is not None:
+            server_id = _hash_block(varblock_str, len(pserver_endpoints))
+            server_for_param = pserver_endpoints[server_id]
+            if not ep2block.has_key(server_for_param):
+                ep2block[server_for_param] = []
+            ep2block[server_for_param].append(varblock_str)
+
+    return ep2block
+
+
+def round_robin(varblocks, pserver_endpoints):
+    assert (len(varblocks) > len(pserver_endpoints))
+
+    ep2block = dict()
+    pserver_idx = 0
+    for varblock_str in varblocks:
+        if param.trainable is True:
+            server_for_param = pserver_endpoints[pserver_idx]
+            if not ep2block.has_key(server_for_param):
+                ep2block[server_for_param] = []
+            ep2block[server_for_param].append(varblock_str)
+
+            pserver_idx += 1
+            if pserver_idx >= len(pserver_endpoints):
+                pserver_idx = 0
+    return ep2block
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