ccl: hierarchical cross-node AllGather (intra-node SDMA + inter-node RDMA) - #441
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Add mori.ccl.HierAllGather: an all_gather_into_tensor-compatible collective that
keeps intra-node traffic on the SDMA copy engines (XGMI) and moves inter-node
traffic over RDMA. A fused ring||local-gather kernel runs the inter-node RDMA
ring concurrently with the ring-independent local node-block SDMA gather in one
grid (stream-ordered, direct-to-output, no staging copy).
Bit-exact vs torch.distributed.all_gather_into_tensor for {bf16,fp16,fp32,int32}.
On 2 nodes x 4 GPUs (MI355X), fp32: standalone bandwidth >= RCCL for sizes
>=8MB (1.19-1.35x); under a concurrent GEMM the SDMA path overlaps with compute
and is 16-20% faster than RCCL at 128-512MB (copy engines vs CU contention).
Includes tests (test_hier_allgather*), size-sweep + gemm-overlap benches, a
plot script, and the measured result charts/CSVs under benchmarks/.
…ignature HierAllGather now auto-detects the node-local rank count (LOCAL_WORLD_SIZE, else hostname grouping, else npes) so callers use the same constructor/call signature as the flat AllgatherSdma with no new required argument. ranks_per_node is now optional and keyword-only; added transit_buffer_size for signature parity. Single node still degenerates to the pure intra-node SDMA path.
Resolve conflicts with the upstream param-contiguous SDMA allgather: - oneshot_sdma_kernel.hpp: keep both the hierarchical sub-group/broadcast SDMA kernels and the upstream param-contiguous kernel (additive). - symmetric_memory.cpp: keep deviceHandles_d indexing by global pe (the array is worldSize-sized and all SDMA kernels index by global pe); adopt the upstream non-fatal GPU-metadata teardown.
Add HierAllGather.all_gather(tensor_list, tensor) matching
torch.distributed.all_gather (list output), built on the same hierarchical
intra-node SDMA / inter-node RDMA path as the contiguous all_gather_into_tensor.
Bit-exact vs torch across {bf16,fp16,fp32,int32}; adds test_hier_allgather_list.
…DMA + inter-RDMA)
…A + inter RDMA) Adds a single drop-in FSDP2 AllGather backend, MoriAllGather, used identically for single-node and cross-node runs via the stock FSDPModule.set_custom_all_gather API. It routes intra-node traffic over SDMA copy engines (XGMI) and, when the process group spans multiple nodes, inter-node traffic over RDMA — the same object handles both, so user code is unchanged between one node and many. (MoriHierAllGather kept as a backward-compat alias.) Includes the Qwen-7B FSDP2 step benchmark, a 2-node driver, and the chart script. No mori source change needed; the HierAllGather primitive already exists and handles the single-node case as pure intra-node SDMA.
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… to beat RCCL xnode) Motivation: cross-node FSDP2 lost to RCCL only because HierAllGather had no param-contiguous output, forcing the backend to copy-out rank-major->param on every gather. HierAllGather.enqueue_param_contiguous now PUSHES the gathered result straight into FSDP's [param][rank] output via the existing per-slot direct gather (no new C++ kernel): per (node-block m, param s) it scatters with dst_block_offset=O_s*W+m*G*E_s, dst_slot_stride=E_s so rank r lands at O_s*W+r*E_s. Adapter sets supports_param_contiguous_output + builds dtype-elem splits. 2-node bit-exact vs torch all_gather_into_tensor (bf16/fp16/fp32/int32, 3 reps).
…l N*P launch overhead to beat RCCL xnode) Motivation: zero-copy killed FSDP copy-out but the per-(node-block,param) loop issued N_nodes*N_params SubGroup launches per all-gather; that launch overhead regressed 2-node FSDP to 106 TFLOPS (< RCCL 128). New fused OneShotAllGatherSdmaSubGroupParamContiguousKernel loops all blocks+splits inside one launch. 2-node standalone bit-exact PASS bf16/fp16/fp32/int32.
…the inter-node RDMA ring (recover ring||gather overlap zero-copy lost to serial path; lever to beat RCCL xnode)
…fault under FSDP; standalone bit-exact) The ring||local-scatter overlap zero-copy path is bit-exact in the 2-node standalone test but triggers an HSA memory-exception under FSDP's repeated-call/ buffer-reuse pattern. Keep the proven non-overlap fused scatter as the default zero-copy path; enable overlap with MORI_HIER_PC_OVERLAP=1 to iterate the fault.
…ng path); catches non-bit-exact scatter (num_blocks=1/W=G) behind the +17.6% HSDP result
… register-once regression test (isolates num_blocks=1 scatter bug; num_blocks=N cross-node path re-confirmed bit-exact)
…ntiguous kernel (align to proven flat kernel); add receiver-slot diagnostic to intra test Fused subgroup param-contiguous scatter proven buggy via single-node repro (world=4 G=4 num_nodes=1): concurrent-warp multi-put scrambles/drops sender data despite correct offsets. threadfence_system (SDMA async, unaffected) only shifted the pattern. Per-put gather_kernel_direct loop predecessor was bit-exact.
…per-op cross-node barrier is the FSDP gap (SDMA 102.9->112.1, beats RCCL 105.6 when removed); justifies generation-counter barrier-free ring
…item()/.tolist() drained the pipeline every call, destroying AG<->backward overlap under FSDP); cache u32 split tensors
…intra barriers) — decisive A/B falsifies barrier-skew: all-barrier removal gives 0% recovery (111.98->111.79), gap is not per-op barrier serialization
… was an undersized-output IPC-registration artifact, NOT a concurrent-put race Root cause (proven via fast single-node nproc=4 repro + a size sweep): the intra param-contiguous direct scatter writes to peerPtrs[remotePe]+dstBaseOffset assuming the registered peer pointer == the output buffer base. When the standalone test's output was small (bf16, ~16MB) torch SUB-allocated it inside a larger pool segment, so ShmemSymmetricRegister/hipIpcGetMemHandle resolved the peer pointer to the SEGMENT base (not the buffer) and the scatter SILENTLY CORRUPTED (wrong slots). float32 (2x larger) crossed the own-segment threshold and passed, which made the failure look dtype/num_blocks-specific. Enlarging the output to its own segment makes num_blocks=1 bit-exact for bf16/fp16/fp32/int32 (12 reps). The kernel was never buggy; a race is not dtype-size-deterministic. Bumps _PARAM_SPLITS to force own-segment; adds probe_nb.py.
…contiguous scatters (shared per-groupPos flag slot) The overlapped param-contiguous zero-copy path (MORI_HIER_PC_OVERLAP=1, the historic best 113.9 TFLOPS win candidate) ran the side-stream LOCAL-block scatter concurrently with the main-stream REMOTE-block scatters. Both call gather_kernel_direct_param_contiguous, which shares ONE per-groupPos flag slot + seq token on the intra handle; concurrent use let a receiver observe the other scatter's flag bump -> premature completion / spin-deadlock under FSDP (the Turn 4/14 hang). Move main.wait_stream(side) BEFORE the remote loop so the two scatter phases are serialized. The key overlap (side local scatter || inter-node RDMA ring) is preserved: the ring finish is enqueued on main before the wait, so it still runs concurrent with the side scatter; only the ring-dependent remote scatters wait. Kernel correctness itself is now proven bit-exact (see prior commit).
…ut on the side stream so the caching allocator does not recycle FSDP buffers mid-scatter
…hurn per AG call (each change = a cross-node ShmemSymmetric register/deregister collective that cannot overlap; candidate for the in-FSDP per-AG inflation vs RCCL)
…oss-nondeterminism is an async completion-capture bug — forced stream.synchronize() at op return gives bit-exact loss==native (11.0992556 x2), while on-device ShmemBarrierOnStream does not drain the local SDMA copy-engine DMA before FSDP consumes the output
…ns on the peer-completion flag with a SYSTEM-scope acquire (AtomicLoadSeqCstSystem) + __threadfence_system instead of an AGENT-scope relaxed load; the flag+data are produced by a REMOTE peer GPU (different HSA agent) so AGENT-scope gives no cross-agent happens-before and the copy-OUT could consume not-yet-visible data under rapid FSDP reuse (host sync masked it)
… elementwise copy-out) to test the copy-engine<->CU coherence root cause for FSDP loss-drift; both CU-write-output and CU-read-transit variants leave loss in the same drift band => the stale bytes are in out_ itself (SDMA receiver drain), not the copy-out engine
…iguous zero-copy — reproduces the FSDP AG->backward hazard (AG on comm stream, consumer waits on a recorded event on the main stream, per-rep varying inputs + layout-weighted consumer + compute pressure); proves the zero-copy direct path is bit-exact AND deterministic under overlap at ~2M-elem splits => the FSDP loss drift is NOT in the AG kernel completion at this regime (look to copy-out path / small-layer routing next)
… deployed FSDP perf path) + small/single-split size profiles — cross-node world=8 shows BOTH the copy-out and zero-copy AllGather paths are bit-exact AND deterministic under the FSDP AG->consumer cross-stream overlap at every size band (0/40 wrong); NaN-safe verdict. => the ~0.15% FSDP loss drift is NOT in HierAllGather completion ordering; redirect to the downstream FSDP path (reduce-scatter / bf16 accum) or an internal side-stream event-join not captured by the caller event
… mode; mixing copy-OUT __call__ and zero-copy enqueue_param_contiguous on ONE handle contaminated shared intra flag/seq + output-registration state (copy-OUT registers transit out_, zero-copy registers the USER output), spuriously yielding a stable-NaN for [zerocopy bf16 nsplit=5] right after copy-OUT ops. The pure-mode bit-exact test PASSES bf16 at that exact config, and FSDP uses one mode per run, so per-mode handles are the faithful harness. Now 12/12 configs 0/40-wrong => both AG output paths bit-exact + deterministic under FSDP AG->consumer cross-stream overlap at every size band; the ~0.15%% FSDP loss drift is NOT in the AG
…ther truth ref Large profile (68M elems/rank; gathered int32 ~2.18GB, crosses 2^31 bytes) probes u32 byte-offset overflow at the embed+lm_head band -> 2-node bit-exact PASS (bf16/fp32/int32), ruling out size-dependent AG corruption. Overlap UT now checks the async output against an INDEPENDENT all_gather reference (not the self-golden), so a stable-but-wrong copy-out drain would be caught -> still 0 wrong at all bands, falsifying the in-kernel drain-race theory for the FSDP loss drift.
… receiver flag wait The InterNodeRing receiver spun on the completion flag with core::AtomicLoadRelaxed and no acquire fence, unlike the intra SDMA gather (AtomicLoadSeqCstSystem + __threadfence_system). The flag is bumped by a REMOTE peer's RDMA AMO and the chunk it guards is landed by that peer's RDMA put -- both cross-agent writes; a relaxed load establishes no happens-before, so the received data need not be coherently visible to the forward-put / copy-out. Harden to a system-scope acquire matching the proven intra pattern. NOTE: in-situ AG-output probe (MORI_FSDP_AG_VERIFY) shows this alone does NOT close the FSDP loss race (184/384 AG calls still read stale vs RCCL, 0/384 under host sync) -- the residual race is in the copy-out drain (ring-buffer->output visibility), the next target.
af86cb1 over-reached and deleted pre-existing all2all/allreduce/ allreduce_async/rccl_allgather tests unrelated to this feature. Bring them back.
Restore anvil.cpp / shmem_ibgda_kernels.hpp / init.cpp to main except the functional bits (anvil HIP-ordinal->HSA-agent BDF fix), and drop stray comment/ whitespace rewords in symmetric_memory.cpp + mlx5.cpp. Keeps the PR diff to feature-relevant changes only.
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Both were set True in __init__ with no ctor arg and no env override, so every else arm behind them was dead. collective.py still defaults stream_ring=False, so the call sites now pass True literally.
Ctor-only opt-ins, both mutually exclusive with slice_inter which defaults True, so the ctor raised ValueError for any combination that would reach them. Nothing in the repo passes either kwarg.
442 lines with a three-way path switch in one method. Pure extraction into _call_pipe_band / _call_sliced / _call_sliced_fused_remote / _call_sliced_fused_local / _call_nonsliced; _call_impl is down to the dispatch. Stream, event and barrier order is unchanged.
Last references keeping those two branches reachable. The three fuse_barrier scenarios stay -- that knob is live on the shipped path.
Stored and never read; copy-paste from _HostProxyDeferredWork where it is live. Dropping the ref is safe because bench.py clamps prefetch depth to 1, so wait() always precedes the next __call__ -- _get_collective can rebuild the collective on a cap change, so the Work object's reference is not guaranteed to be a non-last one.
Both files already had their own copyright line before the license hook prepended the canonical block.
The direct path needs num_nodes >= 2 over RDMA. On a single node the file printed SKIP, asserted nothing and still reported PASSED.
leader_only / gather_in_place / out_in_place are gone from the product code, so the stub no longer has to define them.
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For shmem section, I think is acceptable.
| int intraNodePe = pe % 8; | ||
| int intraNodePe = pe; // index by GLOBAL pe: deviceHandles_d/signalPtrs/expectSignalsPtr are | ||
| // host-populated per global pe (symmetric_memory.cpp) |
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if you use a global pe id, may be rename intraNodePe to peSlot?
| // (not globalRank % 8, which faults under sliced HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES). | ||
| int localDevId = 0; | ||
| for (int j = 0; j < LocalRank(); j++) | ||
| if (peerInfos[j].sameHost) localDevId++; | ||
| for (int i = 0; i < WorldSize(); i++) { | ||
| if (!peerCaps[i].canSDMA) continue; | ||
| if (i != LocalRank()) anvil::EnablePeerAccess(LocalRank() % 8, i % 8); | ||
| anvil::anvil.connect(LocalRank() % 8, i % 8, sdmaNumChannels); | ||
| // Peer within-node device id: count of same-host peers before it. | ||
| int peerDevId = 0; | ||
| for (int j = 0; j < i; j++) | ||
| if (peerInfos[j].sameHost) peerDevId++; | ||
| if (i != LocalRank()) anvil::EnablePeerAccess(localDevId, peerDevId); | ||
| anvil::anvil.connect(localDevId, peerDevId, sdmaNumChannels); |
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The same logic as L177? Perhaps the logic can be unified.
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Unified into a SameHostPeersBefore() helper.
| // BDF of the HIP device, parsed from its "domain:bus:device.function" string. | ||
| std::string busId = getBusId(hipDeviceId); | ||
| unsigned domain = 0, bus = 0, dev = 0, func = 0; | ||
| std::sscanf(busId.c_str(), "%x:%x:%x.%x", &domain, &bus, &dev, &func); | ||
| uint32_t hipBdf = ((bus & 0xFF) << 8) | ((dev & 0x1F) << 3) | (func & 0x7); |
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Has the domain not been used? On multiple PCIe segments, two GPUs on the same machine may share the same 16-bit BDFID → resulting in a mismatch with the correct agent.
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HSA BDFID has no domain, so I match on the 16-bit BDF only when it's unique, else fall back to identity. No change on single-segment; avoids the wrong pick on multi-segment.
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and agent review FYR: Review — hierarchical cross-node AllGatherBlocking1.
Please make the depth single-sourced: either pass the Python-computed depth down, or replicate 2. Reassembly uses
Related: the ring clamps 3. Bounded spin fallbacks turn a hang into silent corruption
4. The sender-side fence exists at only one of five drain → AMO sites
Either the fence at Should fix5. It returns 6. Ring flag array can overflow with Flags are sized 7. Importing
Since 8. Constructor mutates
9. A host-proxy error leaves peers hung in the barrier — On |
- index the SDMA handle arrays by a clearly-named global pe slot - de-duplicate the within-node device-id computation into one helper - match a HIP device to its HSA agent only on a unique BDF, keeping the identity fallback when the low 16-bit BDF is ambiguous
Resolve the SDMA-channel-cap constant duplication in favor of upstream #501's kMaxSdmaChannelsPerPair (drop the local kSdmaMaxNumChannels alias).
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LGTM
add some CI test if possible?
intranode (MI355/MI325): add the CPU offset spec test and the single-node bit-exact test (8 GPUs split into simulated nodes). single-node runs with MORI_HIER_CUDA_GRAPH=0 -- the graph-replay fallback isn't bit-exact-safe on every arch yet, so exercise the eager path. internode: world=16 cross-node bit-exact smoke over real RDMA, both legs (device IBGDA + hostproxy), via tools/run_internode_ccl_ag.sh.
--sizes-mb '8 64' lost its quotes when node2's argv went through
ssh "${NODE2_CMD[*]}" (a second word-split), so '64' hit the wrapper as a
bare arg -> 'Unknown option: 64', node2 died, node1 hung to timeout (exit 124).
use comma-separated 8,64 and split it back inside the wrapper.
RCCL's cross-node RoCE bring-up was failing on the internode runners (MI355/AINIC: ibv_modify_qp timeout, GID index 0 N/A; MI325/BNXT: QP local access violation) -- and that happened in the RCCL reference collective, before mori's own AllGather ran, so the smoke test never actually exercised mori. compute the expected output locally instead (rank-major concat of each rank's deterministic input) and drop device_id= from init_process_group so NCCL stays lazy and never brings up RoCE QPs. now the only cross-node path is mori's. verified bit-exact on 2-node MI300X+mlx5 with no NCCL_IB_* set.
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thanks @jhchouuu , added to ci and passed, verified E2E again locally |
Summary
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mori.ccl.HierAllGather— a hierarchical cross-node AllGather primitive, drop-in compatible withtorch.distributed.all_gather_into_tensor. Intra-node traffic rides the SDMA copy engines (XGMI) and inter-node traffic goes over RDMA (NIC), keeping the collective's data movement off the compute units. Single-node degenerates to the pure intra-node SDMA path; the same object handles multi-node with no signature change.Technical details
torch.distributed.all_gather_into_tensor(zero tolerance,{bf16, fp16, fp32, int32}).MoriAllGather) that wires the primitive in viaFSDPModule.set_custom_all_gather.Test plan / results
Validated on two platforms — MI300X + Mellanox mlx5 and MI355X + AINIC (ionic) RoCEv2.
Full numbers, figures, raw logs, and one-key reproduce scripts are under
examples/fsdp_sdma/bench/(results/mi300x_mlx5/,results/mi355x_ainic/; seeexamples/fsdp_sdma/README.md).