Make the CUDA stream pool per-thread and per-device - #23672
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The global pool handed overlapping streams to concurrent threads, creating false dependencies between unrelated work. Each thread now owns a pool per device that grows on demand up to LIBCUDF_STREAM_POOL_SIZE, and pools are recycled through a free list when a thread exits so thread churn does not accumulate streams.
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I am not sure if this is strictly true, I believe streams only have to be alive while enqueueing work (though not necessarily for the duration of execution). Can you justify this claim? edit: It’s probably because of pool recycling, not stream lifetime. This is fine. |
The interface documented every accessor as thread safe, which the unsynchronized per-thread implementation does not provide; state instead that a pool is owned by one thread at a time. The tests derived their expectations from an assumed pool size, so they depended on which recycled pool a thread happened to adopt and on the configured cap; they now derive sizes from the pool and skip where a property is undefined. Adds coverage for the per-device pools.
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Be aware that there are hardware limits to how many actual parallel workstreams a program can use at once and that if you exceed that you will end up with the same implicit synchronization happening even if you produce these additional software level streams. Your change is still worthwhile to provide us some extra concurrency, just want to point out that it will top out. There is a degree of control of the underlying hardware limits available with environment variables. |
The pool interface now hands out cuda::stream_ref instead of rmm::cuda_stream_view, and owns cuda::stream rather than rmm::cuda_stream. cuda::stream is always non-blocking and takes the device explicitly, which suits a per-device pool, and its destructor uses the driver API so it does not depend on the current device. Callers are unaffected where they pass streams on, since the two view types convert implicitly; the changes elsewhere are value() to get() at kernel launches and synchronize() to sync().
Drops the growth high-water-mark and nested-fork tests, which asserted a growth schedule and a rotation heuristic the interface does not guarantee, and the per-device test, which always skips because tests request a single GPU. What remains covers cross-thread disjointness, pool reuse after a thread exits, and the over-cap repeat contract; a break in any of those is otherwise silent.
I'm aware:) The main goal is not to raise the number of streams, but to make the pool behavior more predictable in multithreaded workloads, and avoid complex dependencies in stream forks. However, we have observed that HW work queue aliasing does not lead to the same issues as stream aliasing (a certain bug does not repro with a large global stream pool). |
The accessor now returns the calling thread's pool for the current device, so "global" describes the opposite of what it does. The old name stays as a deprecated inline forwarder for out-of-tree callers of this detail header.
The accessor documented growth as part of its contract even though it returns the abstract interface, and it claimed streams must not be used after the obtaining thread exits. They stay valid; what is lost is the isolation, because the pool can be handed to another thread.
The growing pool reported its cap rather than the number of streams it holds, and no production code queried it; the tests that did now derive their expectations from observable behavior instead.
Nothing has ever called it; the identity mapping it provided only made sense for the fixed-size RMM pool it was modeled on.
Repeated single-stream requests rotate over a two-stream pool, which reads like a way to spread work across the pool but serializes it.
The factory produces one pool per thread and device, and its doc did not mention that it exists as an override point for the stream identification utilities.
The contracts under test belong to the pool, and the events fork_streams records around each request only add noise. pool_test.cu already covers fork_streams routing to the thread pool.
The helper unwraps stream refs into values the tests can hash and compare; naming it get_streams made it look like a layer over the pool.
Without it the second thread would adopt the retired pool and see the same streams, failing the test rather than passing it trivially.
current_cuda_stream_pool describes the pool a caller should use, and stays accurate if the pool ever becomes shared again.
Reading the environment through a function-local static put a lazy initialization guard on the growth path and left the value observable from nowhere. A pool's cap is fixed once it is created.
The comment read as though the pool were static at that point.
Having the second thread make the oversized request meant comparing its 32 streams against the predecessor's 4. Reversing it compares a normal request against the pool it must have come from.
Only the set being searched needs to be hashed.
Both tests need a request that exceeds the pool's maximum: one to show repetition, the other to enumerate the pool. 256 stopped doing that once the maximum could be configured higher.
A request of 64 does not exceed a pool configured to hold 64, so the repetition it is meant to observe does not happen.
The pylibcudf wrapper built an rmm::cuda_stream_view vector, which no longer converts to the span join_streams takes.
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88-94: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider clamping the upper bound of
LIBCUDF_STREAM_POOL_SIZE.
configured_max_pool_size()clamps only the lower bound. A malformed value such as-1parses to a very largestd::size_t. The pool then has no effective cap and can create a large number of streams on demand.♻️ Proposed clamp
+// Upper bound guards against malformed configuration values. +std::size_t constexpr MAX_STREAM_POOL_SIZE = 1024; + std::size_t configured_max_pool_size() { - return std::max<std::size_t>(1, getenv_or("LIBCUDF_STREAM_POOL_SIZE", STREAM_POOL_SIZE)); + auto const configured = getenv_or("LIBCUDF_STREAM_POOL_SIZE", STREAM_POOL_SIZE); + return std::clamp<std::size_t>(configured, 1, MAX_STREAM_POOL_SIZE); }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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std::unique_ptr<cuda_stream_pool>fromcreate_cuda_stream_pool.The declaration returns a raw owning pointer. The doc text also states "An owning pointer to a new pool." The repository guidelines discourage raw owning pointers. The registry in
cpp/src/utilities/stream_pool.cppdeliberately never destroys pools, so aunique_ptrwould document the transfer at the factory boundary and let the registryrelease()the pointer explicitly.This change touches the test override in
cpp/tests/utilities/identify_stream_usage.cppline 78 as well, so it is optional if the intentional-leak design is preferred.As per coding guidelines: "Raw owning pointers instead of
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In `@cpp/include/cudf/detail/utilities/stream_pool.hpp`:
- Around line 34-53: Update the stream pool documentation to consistently use
the current cuda::stream_ref terminology, replacing stale cuda_stream_view and
“stream views” wording in get_stream(), get_streams(), and the other documented
occurrences while leaving the API declarations unchanged.
- Around line 69-92: Add `@return` documentation to the Doxygen blocks for
current_cuda_stream_pool() and global_cuda_stream_pool(), describing the
returned CUDA stream pool and preserving the existing deprecation note for the
latter.
In `@cpp/src/utilities/stream_pool.cpp`:
- Around line 130-138: Include the cuda/devices header in the compilation unit
containing grow_to so cuda::device_ref is declared; leave the existing
cuda::stream include and stream creation logic unchanged.
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In `@cpp/include/cudf/detail/utilities/stream_pool.hpp`:
- Around line 59-67: Change create_cuda_stream_pool to return
std::unique_ptr<cuda_stream_pool>, updating its declaration, definition, and the
identify-stream test override consistently; at the registry boundary, explicitly
release the pointer to preserve the existing intentional pool lifetime.
In `@cpp/src/utilities/stream_pool.cpp`:
- Around line 88-94: Update configured_max_pool_size() to clamp the parsed
LIBCUDF_STREAM_POOL_SIZE value to a defined safe upper bound as well as the
existing minimum of one, ensuring malformed negative inputs cannot produce an
excessively large std::size_t pool limit.
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| /** | ||
| * @brief Get a `cuda_stream_view` of a stream in the pool. | ||
| * @brief Get a single stream from the pool. | ||
| * | ||
| * This function is thread safe with respect to other calls to the same function. | ||
| * @note Use `get_streams` to obtain multiple streams. Repeated single-stream requests are not | ||
| * guaranteed to return different streams. | ||
| * | ||
| * @return Stream view. | ||
| */ | ||
| virtual rmm::cuda_stream_view get_stream() = 0; | ||
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| * @brief Get a `cuda_stream_view` of the stream associated with `stream_id`. | ||
| * | ||
| * Equivalent values of `stream_id` return a `cuda_stream_view` to the same underlying stream. | ||
| * This function is thread safe with respect to other calls to the same function. | ||
| * | ||
| * @param stream_id Unique identifier for the desired stream | ||
| * @return Requested stream view. | ||
| */ | ||
| virtual rmm::cuda_stream_view get_stream(stream_id_type stream_id) = 0; | ||
| virtual cuda::stream_ref get_stream() = 0; | ||
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| /** | ||
| * @brief Get a set of `cuda_stream_view` objects from the pool. | ||
| * | ||
| * An attempt is made to ensure that the returned vector does not contain duplicate | ||
| * streams, but this cannot be guaranteed if `count` is greater than the value returned by | ||
| * `get_stream_pool_size()`. | ||
| * | ||
| * This function is thread safe with respect to other calls to the same function. | ||
| * The returned streams are distinct unless `count` is greater than the maximum number of streams | ||
| * the pool provides, in which case streams are repeated. | ||
| * | ||
| * @param count The number of stream views to return. | ||
| * @return Vector containing `count` stream views. | ||
| */ | ||
| virtual std::vector<rmm::cuda_stream_view> get_streams(std::size_t count) = 0; | ||
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| * @brief Get the number of unique stream objects in the pool. | ||
| * | ||
| * This function is thread safe with respect to other calls to the same function. | ||
| * | ||
| * @return the number of stream objects in the pool | ||
| */ | ||
| [[nodiscard]] virtual std::size_t get_stream_pool_size() const = 0; | ||
| virtual std::vector<cuda::stream_ref> get_streams(std::size_t count) = 0; |
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Update the stale cuda_stream_view wording in the pool documentation.
The API now returns cuda::stream_ref. Lines 45, 51, and the @return text on line 40 still say cuda_stream_view or "stream views". The same wording also appears on lines 95, 119, and 120.
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/**
* `@brief` Get a single stream from the pool.
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* `@note` Use `get_streams` to obtain multiple streams. Repeated single-stream requests are not
* guaranteed to return different streams.
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- * `@return` Stream view.
+ * `@return` Stream reference.
*/
virtual cuda::stream_ref get_stream() = 0;
/**
- * `@brief` Get a set of `cuda_stream_view` objects from the pool.
+ * `@brief` Get a set of `cuda::stream_ref` objects from the pool.
*
* The returned streams are distinct unless `count` is greater than the maximum number of streams
* the pool provides, in which case streams are repeated.
*
- * `@param` count The number of stream views to return.
- * `@return` Vector containing `count` stream views.
+ * `@param` count The number of stream references to return.
+ * `@return` Vector containing `count` stream references.
*/
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In `@cpp/include/cudf/detail/utilities/stream_pool.hpp` around lines 34 - 53,
Update the stream pool documentation to consistently use the current
cuda::stream_ref terminology, replacing stale cuda_stream_view and “stream
views” wording in get_stream(), get_streams(), and the other documented
occurrences while leaving the API declarations unchanged.
| /** | ||
| * @brief Get the stream pool the calling thread should use for the current device. | ||
| * | ||
| * Each thread currently has its own pool for each device it uses, so concurrent threads are handed | ||
| * distinct streams. The maximum number of streams a pool provides can be configured with the | ||
| * `LIBCUDF_STREAM_POOL_SIZE` environment variable. | ||
| * | ||
| * The returned streams stay valid for the lifetime of the process and may be used from any thread. | ||
| * Once the thread that obtained them exits its pool is recycled, so another thread can be handed | ||
| * the same streams; holding on to them past that point gives up the isolation the pool provides. | ||
| */ | ||
| cuda_stream_pool* create_global_cuda_stream_pool(); | ||
| cuda_stream_pool& current_cuda_stream_pool(); | ||
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| /** | ||
| * @brief Get the global stream pool. | ||
| * @brief Get the stream pool the calling thread should use for the current device. | ||
| * | ||
| * @deprecated Renamed to `current_cuda_stream_pool`, which does not imply a process-wide pool. | ||
| */ | ||
| cuda_stream_pool& global_cuda_stream_pool(); | ||
| [[deprecated("Use current_cuda_stream_pool instead.")]] // | ||
| inline cuda_stream_pool& | ||
| global_cuda_stream_pool() | ||
| { | ||
| return current_cuda_stream_pool(); | ||
| } |
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Add @return to the Doxygen blocks for current_cuda_stream_pool and global_cuda_stream_pool.
Both functions return a value and both doc blocks omit @return. The doxygen linter runs on this header.
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* The returned streams stay valid for the lifetime of the process and may be used from any thread.
* Once the thread that obtained them exits its pool is recycled, so another thread can be handed
* the same streams; holding on to them past that point gives up the isolation the pool provides.
+ *
+ * `@return` Reference to the calling thread's stream pool for the current device.
*/
cuda_stream_pool& current_cuda_stream_pool();
/**
* `@brief` Get the stream pool the calling thread should use for the current device.
*
* `@deprecated` Renamed to `current_cuda_stream_pool`, which does not imply a process-wide pool.
+ *
+ * `@return` Reference to the calling thread's stream pool for the current device.
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| /** | |
| * @brief Get the stream pool the calling thread should use for the current device. | |
| * | |
| * Each thread currently has its own pool for each device it uses, so concurrent threads are handed | |
| * distinct streams. The maximum number of streams a pool provides can be configured with the | |
| * `LIBCUDF_STREAM_POOL_SIZE` environment variable. | |
| * | |
| * The returned streams stay valid for the lifetime of the process and may be used from any thread. | |
| * Once the thread that obtained them exits its pool is recycled, so another thread can be handed | |
| * the same streams; holding on to them past that point gives up the isolation the pool provides. | |
| */ | |
| cuda_stream_pool* create_global_cuda_stream_pool(); | |
| cuda_stream_pool& current_cuda_stream_pool(); | |
| /** | |
| * @brief Get the global stream pool. | |
| * @brief Get the stream pool the calling thread should use for the current device. | |
| * | |
| * @deprecated Renamed to `current_cuda_stream_pool`, which does not imply a process-wide pool. | |
| */ | |
| cuda_stream_pool& global_cuda_stream_pool(); | |
| [[deprecated("Use current_cuda_stream_pool instead.")]] // | |
| inline cuda_stream_pool& | |
| global_cuda_stream_pool() | |
| { | |
| return current_cuda_stream_pool(); | |
| } | |
| /** | |
| * @brief Get the stream pool the calling thread should use for the current device. | |
| * | |
| * Each thread currently has its own pool for each device it uses, so concurrent threads are handed | |
| * distinct streams. The maximum number of streams a pool provides can be configured with the | |
| * `LIBCUDF_STREAM_POOL_SIZE` environment variable. | |
| * | |
| * The returned streams stay valid for the lifetime of the process and may be used from any thread. | |
| * Once the thread that obtained them exits its pool is recycled, so another thread can be handed | |
| * the same streams; holding on to them past that point gives up the isolation the pool provides. | |
| * | |
| * @return Reference to the calling thread's stream pool for the current device. | |
| */ | |
| cuda_stream_pool& current_cuda_stream_pool(); | |
| /** | |
| * @brief Get the stream pool the calling thread should use for the current device. | |
| * | |
| * @deprecated Renamed to `current_cuda_stream_pool`, which does not imply a process-wide pool. | |
| * | |
| * @return Reference to the calling thread's stream pool for the current device. | |
| */ | |
| [[deprecated("Use current_cuda_stream_pool instead.")]] // | |
| inline cuda_stream_pool& | |
| global_cuda_stream_pool() | |
| { | |
| return current_cuda_stream_pool(); | |
| } |
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In `@cpp/include/cudf/detail/utilities/stream_pool.hpp` around lines 69 - 92, Add
`@return` documentation to the Doxygen blocks for current_cuda_stream_pool() and
global_cuda_stream_pool(), describing the returned CUDA stream pool and
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| void grow_to(std::size_t size) | ||
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| return _pool.get_stream(stream_id); | ||
| auto const device = cuda::device_ref{get_current_cuda_device().value()}; | ||
| auto const target = std::min(size, _max_size); | ||
| while (_streams.size() < target) { | ||
| // `cuda::stream` creates non-blocking streams. | ||
| _streams.emplace_back(device); | ||
| } | ||
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In the CUDA Core Compute Libraries (CCCL), the cuda::stream constructor does not accept a flags parameter such as cudaStreamNonBlocking [1][2]. When you construct a new cuda::stream using a cuda::device_ref, it always creates a stream with non-blocking behavior by default [1][3]. This is the standard behavior for all streams created via the CCCL runtime API [3]. Key points regarding this behavior: - Automatic Non-Blocking: Because CCCL treats the default (NULL) stream as an interop case rather than a first-class object, cuda::stream is designed to provide non-blocking behavior natively [3]. Consequently, there is no constructor overload that allows you to specify blocking or non-blocking flags [1][2]. - Interop: If you need to use a stream with specific legacy CUDA Runtime semantics (such as a blocking stream), you should create the native cudaStream_t handle first and then wrap it using cuda::stream::from_native_handle or a cuda::stream_ref [3]. Wrapping an existing native handle in this way preserves the original stream's blocking/non-blocking configuration [3]. - Usage: You can construct a stream on a specific device using the cuda::device_ref as follows: cuda::stream s{cuda::devices}; // Creates a non-blocking stream [1]
Citations:
- 1: https://nvidia.github.io/cccl/unstable/libcudacxx/runtime/stream.html
- 2: https://nvidia.github.io/cccl/unstable/libcudacxx/api/structcuda_1_1stream.html
- 3: https://nvidia.github.io/cccl/unstable/libcudacxx/runtime/cudart_interactions.html
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In the CUDA Core Compute Libraries (CCCL), cuda::device_ref and cuda::stream are distinct entities residing in different header files [1][2]. There is no single header file named "stream.hpp" for these components; rather, they are organized within the <cuda/> include directory [1][3]. To use cuda::device_ref, you should include the header: #include <cuda/devices> To use cuda::stream or cuda::stream_ref, you should include the header: #include <cuda/stream> As shown in official documentation examples, these headers are used together when creating a stream on a specific device [1]: #include <cuda/stream> #include <cuda/devices> int main { // Accessing a device using cuda::device_ref cuda::device_ref dev = cuda::devices; // Creating a stream on that device cuda::stream s{dev}; return 0; } The cuda::device_ref class provides a non-owning handle to a CUDA device [2][4], while cuda::stream is an owning wrapper for a cudaStream_t [1][5]. For interoperability with native CUDA Runtime handles, cuda::stream_ref is available in the same <cuda/stream> header [1][3].
Citations:
- 1: https://nvidia.github.io/cccl/unstable/libcudacxx/runtime/stream.html
- 2: https://nvidia.github.io/cccl/unstable/libcudacxx/runtime/device.html
- 3: https://nvidia.github.io/cccl/unstable/libcudacxx/runtime/cudart_interactions.html
- 4: https://nvidia.github.io/cccl/unstable/libcudacxx/api/classcuda_1_1device__ref.html
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Include <cuda/devices>. cuda::device_ref is declared there, while <cuda/stream> provides cuda::stream; the non-blocking stream comment is correct.
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libcudf's stream pool was a single global pool of 32 streams shared by every thread, so concurrent threads calling
fork_streamswere handed overlapping streams. That creates false dependencies between unrelated work and serializes it. Each thread now owns a pool per device, created empty and grown on demand up to a cap configurable withLIBCUDF_STREAM_POOL_SIZE(default 32). A request grows the pool to twice the requested count and hands out streams starting at a rotating offset, so a nestedfork_streamsgenerally avoids the streams its caller already holds. Pools are returned to a per-device free list when a thread exits and adopted by the next thread that needs one, so applications that create and destroy many threads do not accumulate streams.fork_streamsandjoin_streamskeep their signatures. Streams may still be used from other threads, which libcudf does in the host compression, CSV, and JSON read paths, but they must not outlive the thread that acquired them; all current call sites join before the acquiring frame returns.Multithreaded parquet reads improve by 7-12% in GPU time at 8 threads (
parquet_multithreaded_read_decode_mixed27.4 ms to 25.5 ms,parquet_multithreaded_read_decode_string29.5 ms to 26.8 ms), with run-to-run noise dropping from 9-11% to 4-6%. Single- and two-thread configs, ORC, and groupby are unchanged, and peak memory is unchanged.Checklist