278 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Kamil Iskra
3ea7eedf3b NCCL 2.27.5-1
Improvements for GB200 systems
* Optimize the network performance by alternating the direction of the
  rings and the NIC to GPU assignment across communicators to limit
  unnecessary sharing.
* Fix the detection of C2C links in case GPU Direct RDMA is disabled
  between a GPU and a NIC.
* Fix PXN support on MNNVL systems, where NCCL would try (and fail) to
  share regular host memory across multiple nodes.
* Fix P2C (PXN over C2C), which is now preferred over regular PXN.  This
  support is currently preliminary and is disabled by default; use
  NCCL_PXN_C2C=1 to enable.

Further reduce the overheads of CUDA graph capturing, which increased in
NCCL 2.26.2 for large graphs.

Optimize the network performance on DGX B200 systems by adjusting the
bandwidths provided to the graph search algorithm.

Enable fp8 reductions in symmetric kernels on Blackwell with CUDA 12.8.

Restore the plugin name handling logic to make it possible to specify a
path to the plugin (Issue #1732).

Restore the ability to change NCCL_COLLNET_ENABLE during execution
(Issue #1741).

Add an example tuner plugin with CSV-based overrides.

Remove an x86 dependency from the example profiler.
v2.27.5-1
2025-06-18 10:34:47 -07:00
Kamil Iskra
72d2432094 NCCL 2.27.3-1
Symmetric memory API and symmetric kernels
 * Redesign from the ground up, enabling major latency and bandwidth
   improvements.
 * Add new API calls to register user-allocated memory among communicator
   ranks into a NCCL window: ncclCommWindowRegister() and
   ncclCommWindowDeregister(). The calls currently support symmetric
   registration for P2P and NVLS, and require VMM memory buffers (i.e.,
   CUMEM must be operational).
 * Implement specialized kernels taking advantage of symmetrically
   registered memory, with performance gains expected particularly for
   small to medium message sizes.
 * The kernels support 32 bit floating point types and smaller, and sum as
   the reduction operator, with no more than one collective operation per
   group.
 * Floating point summation is always done in fp32 accumulators (with the
   exception of fp8 on NVLS, where it uses fp16 inside the switch). Thus,
   the accuracy with fp8 and fp16 data types should be much improved.
 * This initial implementation supports non-network communicators only (P2P
   and NVLS transports).
 * To explore this functionality users need to use the new memory
   registration API calls with the NCCL_WIN_COLL_SYMMETRIC flag and all
   ranks of a communicator must pass buffers at the same offset in the same
   registration when invoking a collective NCCL operation.

Add support for DGX Spark.

Add support for DirectNIC (CX8) to the internal IB plugin.

Add a new ncclCommShrink() API call
 * It is a non-collective call similar to ncclCommSplit(), which makes it
   possible to exclude some (possibly unresponsive) ranks from the parent
   communicator.

Add support for loading multiple network plugins
 * This enables the creation of generic containers that can work across a
   range of providers.
 * Allow NCCL_NET_PLUGIN to accept a comma-separated list of plugins to
   load.

NVLink SHARP (NVLS) improvements
 * Implement NVLS+IB SHARP support for AllGather and ReduceScatter with
   user buffer registration. This improves performance and reduces the
   number of CTAs needed to achieve peak bandwidth.
 * Gracefully fall back by default to other transports if NVLS
   initialization fails (the old behavior of returning an error code from a
   NCCL call can be preserved by setting NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=1).
 * Decrease the NVLS channel count to 24 on Blackwell systems with multiple
   NVLink domains per communicator.
 * Enable fine-tuning of NCCL behavior per communicator using new
   "ncclConfig_t" members "collnetEnable", "CTAPolicy", and "nvlsCTAs".

Profiler improvements
 * Extend the init function by adding communicator name, comm id (hash),
   rank, number of ranks, number of nodes, and the NCCL log function to the
   argument list. This makes the name and the comm id available to all
   events in the communicator without explicitly passing them to each
   individual event. Add the communicator id and rank to the profiler trace
   filename. Now, the communicator name can be set via a new "ncclConfig_t"
   member "commName".
 * Improve the accuracy of the GPU kernel events by providing GPU-generated
   timestamps for the start and stop of every NCCL operation.
 * Harmonize proxy events, removing overlaps between ProxyOp and ProxyStep
   states.
 * Add support for network-defined event updates (through
   "recordEventState").
 * Report the correct number of channels used by every collective/p2p
   operation (used to be set to nMaxChannels for collectives and absent for
   p2ps).
 * Fix the logic on proxyCtrl Idle/Active events (Issue #1162).
 * Fix an issue where the network proxy profiler could lose track of an
   event identifier (Issue #1682).
 * Improve the backward compatibility with plugins older than v4.
 * Ensure that the work counters are 0-initialized.
 * Fix a potential race condition in the network profiler that could result
   in an event being linked to a wrong parent.

MNNVL improvements
 * Increase to 16 the number of NICs used to communicate between MNNVL
   domains on GB200 systems, to optimize the performance of collective
   operations.
 * Add support for more complex MNNVL topologies with up to 32 NICs per
   node.
 * If the MNNVL fabric initialization was unsuccessful, NCCL will now fail
   by default, so as to avoid inadvertently falling back to a potentially
   much slower network transport. Such failures are typically due to a
   misconfigured IMEX support on the system. To continue without MNNVL,
   restart the job with NCCL_MNNVL_ENABLE=0.
 * Fix a potential hang in alltoall-like communication patterns at a scale
   of over 80 ranks.
 * Make NCCL_P2P_DISABLE=1 imply NCCL_MNNVL_ENABLE=0 (so the latter no
   longer needs to be specified on MNNVL systems).
 * Fix an initialization failure when NCCL_TOPO_FILE is used on MNNVL
   systems.
 * Fix the graph search to exclude non-local NICs.
 * Fix the SHM transport to use fabric handles on MNNVL systems.

NIC Fusion improvements
 * Disable the creation of fused NICs for physical devices that haven't
   been merged.
 * Flatten multiple ports to a single PCI device within the internal IB
   plugin and reparent dual-port NICs under the first PCI parent. If the
   parent is not a PCI switch, PCI devices for fused NICs won't be
   duplicated.
 * Route traffic on GB200-CX8 systems through DirectNIC, not the host
   interface.

Improve support for platforms with C2C connectivity (e.g., GB200)
 * Enable GPUDirect RDMA for the NICs by default.
 * Add support for P2C (PXN over C2C) and the LL128 protocol.

Extend NCCL fault tolerance in multithreaded scenarios
 * Support the creation of multiple nonblocking communicators within a
   single group and polling in parallel for the completion using multiple
   threads (one per communicator).

Enable ncclImplicitOrderLaunch for CUDA 12.9+
 * This can potentially speed up NCCL_IMPLICIT_LAUNCH_ORDER.

Improve the netSocket transport latency and control
 * Provide finer control over the size of the socket send/receive buffers,
   the task size, and the number of sockets that a single peer can open.
 * Add support for the inlining of small messages behind the header when
   using multiple sockets per connection.

Improve the readability of the CPU affinity in the debug output
 * Print it as a range string rather than a bitmask.

Fix a potential race condition in graph execution
 * A contention could arise when mixing graph and non-graph execution.

Improve PXN connection code
 * Avoid duplicate and unused connections.

RAS fixes
 * Fix a memory corruption at job termination time in case of a previously
   failed initialization of a RAS socket connection.
 * Fix a race condition leading to a crash when generating a RAS report
   during communicator initialization (Issues #1669, #1718).
 * Fix a potential race condition when gathering data for a RAS status
   report.

Fix a potential memory corruption in ncclCommSplit()
 * Memory could get corrupted when resource sharing was in use and the size
   of the NVLink domain in the new communicator was smaller than in the old
   one.

Fix asynchronous graph upload
 * Fix a small memory leak.
 * Fix oversychronization.

Add a check for out-of-memory conditions in ncclMemAlloc()

Clean up the NCCL socket code
 * accept() will retry also if just reading the magic failed (Issue #1613).
 * connect() will retry also if poll() did not return a POLLOUT event
   (Issue #1618).
 * Add error checking in a few instances (Issue #1539).
 * Fix the loop condition in ncclFindInterfaceMatchSubnet() (Issue #1574).
 * Clean up the debug output, downgrading WARN messages to INFO in
   non-critical cases, and printing the peer's address where relevant.

Switch NCCL_DEBUG_FILE to line buffering
 * This should help avoid mixed-up partial output lines in multithreaded
   cases.

Other minor fixes
 * Improve the checks for buffer overflows in the graph code (Issue #1585).
 * Extend logging and state clearing to all four events in the internal IB
   plugin (Issue #1650).
 * Fix the error path in case IB communication is not ready (Issue #1489).
 * Add ECE logging for IB fabric.
 * Fix various minor issues in the graph module (Issue #1635).
 * Clean up the debug output in the graph code, downgrading WARN messages
   to INFO in non-critical cases.
 * Add a missing argument to a directSend() call (Issue #1628).
 * Remove duplicate code in sendProxySetup() (Issue #1420).
 * Fix the order of arguments of cudaDeviceCanAccessPeer() (Issue #1507).
 * Fix compiler warnings with GCC 14.
 * Fix a typo in a comment (Issue #1236).
v2.27.3-1
2025-05-29 20:56:40 -07:00
Giuseppe Congiu
8171af656b NCCL 2.26.6-1
Fix profiler_v2 compatibility layer
 * Removing trafficBytes in profiler_v3 breaks casting to ncclProfilerEventDescr_v2_t
   in the compatibility layer for profiler_v2 interface. This patch fixes the issue
   by making the conversion between the two descriptors explicit.
v2.26.6-1
2025-05-20 04:04:41 -07:00
Kamil Iskra
3000e3c797 NCCL 2.26.5-1
Work around a potential hang in alltoall-like communication patterns on
MNNVL systems at a scale of over 80 ranks.
v2.26.5-1
2025-04-22 13:55:13 -07:00
Kamil Iskra
0524aef7a0 NCCL 2.26.3-1
Minimize the performance impact of the device kernel profiling support when
the profiler plugin is not loaded.

Reduce the overheads of CUDA graph capturing, which increased in NCCL
2.26.2 for large graphs.

Fix the exchange of enhanced connection establishment (ECE) options to
address potential slowdowns on networks utilizing RoCE.

Test if cuMem host allocations work and if not, disable them. Enabled by
default since NCCL 2.24 if the CUDA driver version is at least 12.6, such
allocations rely on NUMA support, which is by default not available under
Docker. We recommend invoking Docker with "--cap-add SYS_NICE" to enable
it.

Fix an initialization error when running with NCCL_NET_GDR_C2C=1 on
multiple MNNVL domains with non-uniform network configurations across
nodes.

Fix the printing of sub-seconds in the debug log when using a custom
NCCL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT setting.
v2.26.3-1
2025-04-22 13:50:40 -07:00
Giuseppe Congiu
145e67e707 Update ext-profiler example
Sync ext-profiler example with 2.26.2.
2025-04-13 23:56:46 -07:00
Kamil Iskra
f44ac759fe NCCL 2.26.2-1
Profiler improvements
 * Add events for CUDA kernel start and end.
 * Allow network plugins to generate profiling events
 * Enable profiling on a per-operation basis, rather than per-communicator.
 * Add support for graph capturing.

Add implicit launch order
 * Allow to prevent deadlocks when using multiple NCCL communicators per
   device by implicitly ordering NCCL operations using the host program
   order. Disabled by default, set NCCL_LAUNCH_ORDER_IMPLICIT=1 to enable.
 * Add a complementary mechanism to detect host threads racing to launch
   to the same device. Enabled by default, set NCCL_LAUNCH_RACE_FATAL=0 to
   disable.

Optimize the PAT algorithm
 * Separate the computation and execution of PAT steps on different warps,
   allowing to run up to 16 PAT steps in parallel to significantly
   accelerate PAT and reduce its linear part.

Add support for setting QoS per communicator
 * Add a new trafficClass field to the communicator configuration, to
   allow the application to select a particular traffic class for a
   given communicator. The meaning of the traffic class is
   network-specific and should be set in accordance with the network
   configuration.
 * For the IB/RoCE plugin, existing config variables such as NCCL_IB_SL
   and NCCL_IB_TC take precedence.

Allow to enable GPU Direct RDMA specifically on C2C platforms
 * Disabled by default, set NCCL_NET_GDR_C2C=1 to enable.

Do not disable user buffer registration unless PXN is really used
 * Only disable UB when a communicator has more than one rank per
   node on any node.

RAS subsystem improvements
 * Report operation counts separately for each collective operation type.
 * Provide details about missing communicator ranks and reliably
   distinguish ranks that are no longer a given communicator's members
   (now reported as NOCOMM) from those that failed to respond.

Add support for timestamps to NCCL diagnostic messages
 * On by default for WARN messages; NCCL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMP_LEVELS can be
   used to enable them for other debug levels as well.
 * The format can be changed using the NCCL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT config
   variable.

Reduce the memory usage with NVLink SHARP (NVLS)
 * Potentially save hundreds of MBs of device memory, considering the
   multicast buffer size granularity separately from the address alignment.

Update performance tuning for recent Intel CPUs
 * Improve algorithm/protocol selection on recent CPUs such as Emerald
   Rapids and Sapphire Rapids.

Improve channel scheduling when mixing LL and Simple operations.
 * Make LL operations account for 4x more traffic to ensure LL and simple
   operations complete at the same time.

Refactor the plugin code
 * Clean up and harmonize the support code across the network, tuner,
   and profiler plugins.

Add support for comment lines (starting with #) in the nccl.conf file
* Issue #1540.

Make user buffer registration problems print an INFO instead of a WARN.

Drop support for network plugin interface version 5.

Fix a race condition with split-shared communicators
 * NCCL could hang during connection setup if multiple communicators
   were grouped together that share resources.

Fix a performance regression when using NCCL_CROSS_NIC=1
 * NCCL would unnecessarily alternate rings, breaking the GPU-NIC
   associations.

Make GID index detection code more resilient
 * Dynamic GID detection code was giving up too soon if the
   detected index was not available (e.g., wasn't mapped to the
   container's sysfs).
 * Issues #1538, #1573.

Fix a race condition with non-blocking operation
 * Fix issue when creating a non-blocking communicator after a non-
   blocking collective operation on another communicator.

Fix shared memory usage on recent Blackwell GPUs.
 * Issues NVIDIA/nccl-tests#287, NVIDIA/nccl-tests#291, #1637.

Fix an error with NIC fusion and IB SHARP when recreating communicators
 * Disable the unloading of network plugins

Make the auto-merge failures in the NIC fusion non-fatal
 * This could happen when trying to merge IB and RoCE devices.

Fixes to ncclCommAbort
 * Fix hangs due to the progress thread spinning indefinitely on the
   network progress.
 * Reduce the abort time by up to two orders of magnitude.

Fix a crash when libnccl.so was dynamically unloaded
 * The RAS subsystem was missing a clean-up handler.

Fix a hang if the network plugin's test() call returns an error.

Fix a hang on heterogeneous architectures
 * Ensure we harmonize the tuning to avoid different tuning choices,
   causing a hang.

Fix double-free on failed ncclCommInitRank and ncclCommFinalize.

Fix a potential list traversal bug during a group launch of multiple
communicators
 * Issue #1599.

Unify the handling of NCCL configuration variables
 * Under rare circumstances, some variables specified in the config file
   could be ignored.
v2.26.2-1
2025-03-12 13:46:21 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
80f6bda437 NCCL 2.25.1-1
Add Blackwell/SM100 support
 * Add compilation for sm100
 * Add graph search speeds for Blackwell
 * Optimize graph search to converge on large NVLink domains
 * Limit NVLS heads to 32
 * Increase various limits to fit large NVLink domains
 * Add extra checks for IMEX setup, needed for MNNVL
 * Increase MAXCHANNELS to 64

Extend NVTX instrumentation to track NCCL communicators
 * Add communicator ID to NVTX traces to allow for correlation
   between ranks.

RAS fixes
v2.25.1-1
2025-01-27 03:33:57 -08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
1672c85781 Fix packaging scripts.
Issue #1578
2025-01-17 02:06:47 -08:00
Giuseppe Congiu
d7ccab8b7e Add profiler documentation
Add the following files:

 - ext-profiler/README.md: plugin writed documentation
 - ext-profiler/example/README.md: example plugin user documentation
2025-01-16 04:40:53 -08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
dcdc67c40b Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' 2025-01-07 02:02:00 -08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
6aae379278 2.24.3-1
Network user buffer support for collectives
 * Leverage user buffer registration to achieve zero-copy
   inter-node communications for Ring, NVLS and Collnet

Add RAS subsystem
 * Create a RAS thread keeping track of all NCCL communicators.
 * Add a ncclras tool contacting the RAS thread and getting a
   report.

Add fp8 support
 * Add support for e5m2 and e4m3 8-bit floating point operations.
 * Use Tree/PAT algorithms when possible for better numerical
   stability.

Add NIC fusion
 * Add a NET API to ask the network plugin to fuse a set of
   interfaces together.
 * Fuse multiple NICs under the same PCI switch as a single,
   larger NIC.

Socket connection failure retry
 * Retry in case of socket connection failure (unreachable host)
 * Avoid "Software caused connection abort" errors on retries

QP connection failure retry
 * Retry in case of IB QP connection failure during ibv_modify_qp.

NET API improvements
 * Allow plugins to force a flush in case data and completion
   ordering is not guaranteed.
 * Indicate when completion is not needed (e.g. for the LL128
   protocol), allowing plugins to skip generating a completion.
 * Allow for full offload of allgather operations when using one
   GPU per node.

NCCL_ALGO/NCCL_PROTO strict enforcement
 * Extend NCCL_ALGO/NCCL_PROTO syntax to be able to specify
   ALGO/PROTO filters for each collective operation.
 * Strictly enforce the ALGO/PROTO filters, no longer fall back
   on the ring algorithm when the filtering leaves no option and
   error out instead.

Enable CUMEM host allocations
 * Use cumem functions for host memory allocation by default.

Improved profiler plugin API
 * Avoid dependencies with NCCL includes.
 * Add information on whether the buffer is registered or not

Adjust PAT tuning
 * Improve transition between PAT and ring at scale.

Fix hangs when running with different CPU architectures
 * Detect when we use a mix of GPU architectures
 * Ensure Algo/Proto decisions are made based on that unified
   state.

Fix FD leak in UDS
 * Fix a leak when mapping buffers intra-node with cumem IPCs.

Fix crash when mixing buffer registration and graph buffer registration.
 * Separate local and graph registration to avoid crashes when we free
   buffers.

Fix user buffer registration with dmabuf
 * Make ncclSend/ncclRecv communication with buffer registration functional
   on network plugins relying on dmabuf for buffer registration.

Fix crash in IB code caused by uninitialized fields.

Fix non-blocking ncclSend/ncclRecv
 * Fix case where ncclSend/ncclRecv would return ncclSuccess in non-blocking
   mode even though the operation was not enqueued onto the stream.
 * Issue #1495

Various compiler tweaks and fixes
 * PR #758

Fix typo in ncclTopoPrintGraph
 * Issue #1468
v2.24.3-1
2025-01-07 02:01:15 -08:00
David Addison
8fb057cda2
Merge pull request #1563 from LameloBally/comment
Comment of a Bootstrap Function  changed
2025-01-03 16:04:33 -08:00
WoosungMyung
1875119095 Explanation of Function change 2025-01-04 08:47:46 +09:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
2ea4ee94bf Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' 2024-09-16 23:42:38 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
68b542363f 2.23.4-1
Add scalable init API
 * Add new ncclCommInitRankScalable to allow for passing multiple
   unique IDs to the init function.
 * Spreads the load onto multiple bootstrap roots, allowing for
   constant bootstrap time.
 * Requires multiple ranks to create a unique ID, and the CPU-side
   ID exchange code to call allgather[v] instead of broadcast.

Accelerate init bootstrap operations
 * Reduce the number of calls to allgather.
 * Allow roots to reply early to ranks when information is already
   available.
 * Add an option to use ncclNet instead of sockets to perform
   bootstrap allgather operations.

Add PAT algorithms for Allgather and ReduceScatter
 * Parallel Aggregated Trees, variation of Bruck algorithm.
 * Logarithmic number of network steps for small sizes at scale.
 * Only supports one rank per node at the moment.

Add support for registered buffers for intra-node communication.
 * Allow registered user buffers to be accessed directly intra-node
 * Avoids extra copies in algorithms which permit it, saving
   memory bandwidth and helping with compute overlap.

Add profiler plugin API
 * New plugin API for profiling
 * Supports various levels of profiling, with a hierarchy.

Asynchronous graph allocation
 * Make calls to cudaMalloc and cudaMemcpy during graph allocation
   asynchronous.
 * Significantly speeds up graph capture.

Use fatal IB asynchronous events to stop network operation
 * Avoids many other error messages
 * Only fatal errors are affected; potentially transient errors
   (e.g. port down) do not cause an immediate stop.

Set P2P level to PXB on AMD CPUs when using more than 2 GPUs per node
 * P2P would cause a significant performance degradation when using
   many GPUs, and therefore many interleaved data flows.
 * Disable P2P through the CPU when we have 3+ GPUs per node; keep it
   enabled when we only have 2 GPUs.

Improve the init logs to report the real NCCL function.
 * Make the log report ncclCommInitRank or ncclCommSplit, rather than
   the generic ncclCommInitRankFunc.

Add a parameter to set the location of the user configuration file.
 * Add NCCL_CONF_FILE environment variable to set where the user's
   configuration file resides.

Increase default IB timeout
 * Increase IB timeout value from 18 to 20.
 * Should help avoid fatal errors on large RoCE systems.

Add new check for nvidia peermem
 * On linux kernels 6.6+, /sys/kernel/mm/memory_peers is no longer
   present; check for /sys/module/nvidia_peermem/version instead.

Fix old performance regression when mixing small and large operations.
 * Improves distribution of work on channels.

Fix crash when NUMA IDs are equal to -1.
 * Can happen when a NIC is a virtual NIC, or when linux doesn't
   know which NUMA node a device is attached to
 * Issue NVIDIA/nccl-tests#233

Fix tree graph search when NCCL_CROSS_NIC is set to 1.
 * Would force NCCL to use the balanced_tree pattern, thereby
   disabling LL128 on platforms with 1 GPU+1 NIC per PCI switch.
 * Would also try to use alternate rings even though it was not
   needed.

Compiler tweaks and fixes
 * PR #1177
 * PR #1228

Fix stack smash
 * PR #1325

Fixes for multi-node NVLink + IB operation

Coverity fixes and comments.
v2.23.4-1
2024-09-16 23:41:17 -07:00
Kamil Iskra
1a16f42750 Add missing header files 2024-09-16 14:47:37 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
e261ecea18 2.23.4-1
Add scalable init API
 * Add new ncclCommInitRankScalable to allow for passing multiple
   unique IDs to the init function.
 * Spreads the load onto multiple bootstrap roots, allowing for
   constant bootstrap time.
 * Requires multiple ranks to create a unique ID, and the CPU-side
   ID exchange code to call allgather[v] instead of broadcast.

Accelerate init bootstrap operations
 * Reduce the number of calls to allgather.
 * Allow roots to reply early to ranks when information is already
   available.
 * Add an option to use ncclNet instead of sockets to perform
   bootstrap allgather operations.

Add PAT algorithms for Allgather and ReduceScatter
 * Parallel Aggregated Trees, variation of Bruck algorithm.
 * Logarithmic number of network steps for small sizes at scale.
 * Only supports one rank per node at the moment.

Add support for registered buffers for intra-node communication.
 * Allow registered user buffers to be accessed directly intra-node
 * Avoids extra copies in algorithms which permit it, saving
   memory bandwidth and helping with compute overlap.

Add profiler plugin API
 * New plugin API for profiling
 * Supports various levels of profiling, with a hierarchy.

Asynchronous graph allocation
 * Make calls to cudaMalloc and cudaMemcpy during graph allocation
   asynchronous.
 * Significantly speeds up graph capture.

Use fatal IB asynchronous events to stop network operation
 * Avoids many other error messages
 * Only fatal errors are affected; potentially transient errors
   (e.g. port down) do not cause an immediate stop.

Set P2P level to PXB on AMD CPUs when using more than 2 GPUs per node
 * P2P would cause a significant performance degradation when using
   many GPUs, and therefore many interleaved data flows.
 * Disable P2P through the CPU when we have 3+ GPUs per node; keep it
   enabled when we only have 2 GPUs.

Improve the init logs to report the real NCCL function.
 * Make the log report ncclCommInitRank or ncclCommSplit, rather than
   the generic ncclCommInitRankFunc.

Add a parameter to set the location of the user configuration file.
 * Add NCCL_CONF_FILE environment variable to set where the user's
   configuration file resides.

Increase default IB timeout
 * Increase IB timeout value from 18 to 20.
 * Should help avoid fatal errors on large RoCE systems.

Add new check for nvidia peermem
 * On linux kernels 6.6+, /sys/kernel/mm/memory_peers is no longer
   present; check for /sys/module/nvidia_peermem/version instead.

Fix old performance regression when mixing small and large operations.
 * Improves distribution of work on channels.

Fix crash when NUMA IDs are equal to -1.
 * Can happen when a NIC is a virtual NIC, or when linux doesn't
   know which NUMA node a device is attached to
 * Issue NVIDIA/nccl-tests#233

Fix tree graph search when NCCL_CROSS_NIC is set to 1.
 * Would force NCCL to use the balanced_tree pattern, thereby
   disabling LL128 on platforms with 1 GPU+1 NIC per PCI switch.
 * Would also try to use alternate rings even though it was not
   needed.

Compiler tweaks and fixes
 * PR #1177
 * PR #1228

Fix stack smash
 * PR #1325

Fixes for multi-node NVLink + IB operation

Coverity fixes and comments.
2024-09-10 23:57:16 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
178b6b7590 2.22.3-1
Rework core for NVIDIA Trusted Computing
 * Compress work structs so that they are shared between channels
 * Utilize the full amount of kernel argument space permitted (4k)
   before resorting to work fifo.
 * Rework the task preprocessing phase.
 * Use a separate abortDevFlag which is kept in sync with abortFlag
   using cudaMemcpy operations.
 * Rename src/include/align.h to src/include/bitops.h

Add lazy connection establishment for collective operations
 * Move buffer allocation and connection establishment to the first
   collective operation using that algorithm.
 * Accelerate init time and reduce memory usage.
 * Avoid allocating NVLS buffers if all calls are registered.
 * Compute algo/proto in ncclLaunchCollTasksInfo early on.
 * Connect peers in ncclCollPreconnectFunc if not connected already.
 * Also move shared buffer creation to the first send/recv call.

Accelerate intra-node NVLink detection
 * Make each rank only detect NVLinks attached to its GPU.
 * Fuse XMLs to reconstruct the full NVLink topology

Add init profiling to report time spend in different init phases.
 * Report timings of bootstrap, allgather, search, connect, etc.
 * Add new "PROFILE" category for NCCL_DEBUG_SUBSYS.

Add support for PCI p2p on split PCI switches
 * Detect split PCI switches through a kernel module exposing
   switch information.
 * Update the topology XML and graph to add those inter-switch
   connections.

Add cost estimation API
 * Add a new ncclGroupEndSimulate primitive to return the estimated
   time a group would take.

Net/IB: Add separate traffic class for fifo messages
 * Add NCCL_IB_FIFO_TC to control the traffic class of fifo messages
   independently from NCCL_IB_TC.
   Merges PR #1194

Net/IB: Add support for IB router
 * Use flid instead of lid if subnets do not match
 * Warn if flid is 0

Optimizations and fixes for device network offload (unpack)
 * Double the default number of channels
 * Cache netDeviceType
 * Fix save/increment head logic to enable Tree support.

Support ncclGroupStart/End for ncclCommAbort/Destroy
 * Allow Abort/Destroy to be called within a group when managing
   multiple GPUs with a single process.

Improve Tuner API
 * Provide to the plugin the original cost table so that the plugin
   can leave unknown or disabled algo/proto combinations untouched.
 * Remove nvlsSupport and collnetSupport.

Do not print version to stdout when using a debug file
 * Also print version from all processes with INFO debug level.
   Fixes issue #1271

Fix clang warnings in NVTX headers
 * Update NVTX headers to the latest version
   Fixes issue #1270

Disable port fusion in heterogeneous systems
 * Do not fuse ports if a mix of multi-port and single port are detected.

Fix NVLS graphs search for dual NICs.
 * Fix NVLS graph search when we have more than one NIC per GPU.

Fix crash with collnetDirect
 * Add separate graph search for collnetDirect, testing alltoall paths
   and working similarly to the NVLS search.

Fix hang when nodes have different CPU types
 * Add the CPU type to the rank peer info.
 * Align all ranks on the CPU type after the first allgather.
 * Only use the aligned CPU type for all tuning operations.
   Fixes issue #1136
   Fixes issue #1184

Fix performance of registered send/recv operations
 * Allow for single full size operations
 * Add INFO to confirm the registration of send/recv buffers.

Move all sync ops to finalize stage
 * Ensure ncclCommDestroy is non-blocking if ncclCommFinalize has
   been called.

Improve error reporting during SHM segment creation

Improve support of various compilers
   Merges PR #1177
   Merges PR #1228

Allow net and tuner plugins to be statically linked
 * Search for ncclNet or ncclTuner symbols in the main binary.
   Merges PR #979

Plugin examples includes cleanup
 * Harmonize err.h and common.h usage.
 * Add mixed plugin with both net and tuner.
v2.22.3-1
2024-06-19 01:57:16 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
529ee691c3 Add decription for regIsGlobal in the NET API documentation 2024-06-14 01:57:43 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
ab2b89c4c3 2.21.5-1
Add support for IB SHARP 1PPN operation with user buffers.
Improve support for MNNVL, add NVLS support and multi-clique support.
 * Detect the NVLS clique through NVML
 * Exchange XML between peers in the same NVLS clique and fuse XMLs
   before creating the topology graph.
 * Rework bootstrap allgather algorithms to allow for large allgather
   operations intra-node (XML exchange).
Net/IB: add support for dynamic GID detection.
 * Automatically select RoCEv2/IPv4 interface by default. Allow to
   select IPv6 or even the network/mask.
Reduce NVLS memory usage.
 * Add stepSize as property of a connection to allow for different
   sizes on different peers; set it to 128K for NVLink SHARP.
Improve tuner loading
 * Look for more paths, be more consistent with the network device
   plugin.
 * Also search for tuner support inside the net plugin.
Improve tuner API
 * Add context to support multi-device per process.
Add magic number around comm object to detect comm corruption.
 * Add some basic check around communicators so that we can report a
   problem when a communicator gets corrupted or a wrong comm pointer
   is passed to NCCL.
Fix net/IB error path. Github PR #1164
Fix collnet rail mapping with split comm.
Fix packet reordering issue causing bootstrap mismatch
 * Use a different tag in ncclTransportP2pSetup for the connectInfo
   exchange and the following barrier.
Fix hang when crossNic is inconsistent between ranks.
Fix minCompCap/maxCompCap computation. Github issue #1184
v2.21.5-1
2024-04-02 01:53:21 -07:00
jbachan
6dd51f15bf
Merge pull request #1217 from crazy-JiangDongHua/bugfix_undo_plan
Bug in plan enqueue logic where plans could be silently not launched for some communicators. Triggered when both are true:
1. Multiple communicators per ncclGroup.
2. Communicators within a group have different plan counts.
2. Intra-process launch barrier disabled.
2024-03-18 10:12:26 -07:00
FrankJ
9ef920a77b [bugfix]save undo plans in some case 2024-03-12 00:00:16 +08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
48bb7fec79 2.20.5-1
Fix UDS connection failure when using ncclCommSplit. Issue #1185
v2.20.5-1
2024-02-26 02:52:39 -08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
b6475625fb 2.20.3-1
Add support for alternating rings, allow for cross-nic rings without
cross-rail communication.
Add support for user buffer registration for network send/recv.
Optimize aggregated operations to better utilize all channels.
Add flattening for BCM PCI gen5 switches.
Add support for inter-node NVLink communication
Add support for port fusion in NET/IB.
Add support for ReduceScatter and AllGather using Collnet.
Update net API to v8.
Fix hang during A2A connection.
v2.20.3-1
2024-02-13 04:22:38 -08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
b6d7438d31 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' 2023-11-20 05:07:23 -08:00
David Addison
16b5be19f6
Merge pull request #1070 from Flamefire/fix-cpuid2
Fix use of CPUID overwriting registers in use
2023-11-18 11:05:42 -08:00
Alexander Grund
cece6415b0 Fix use of CPUID overwriting registers in use.
CPUID writes to EAX, EBX, ECX, and EDX so the inline-asm must state that.
Otherwise currently in-use register might get overwritten which may
cause all kinds of failures like segfaults or wrong results.

Alternatively `__cpuid` can be used which avoids this and related issues.
So do that as suggested in the GCC issue https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112513
2023-11-14 12:38:02 +01:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
88d44d777f 2.19.4-1
Split transport connect phase into multiple steps to avoid port
exhaustion when connecting alltoall at large scale. Defaults to 128
peers per round.
Fix memory leaks on CUDA graph capture.
Fix alltoallv crash on self-sendrecv.
Make topology detection more deterministic when PCI speeds are not
available (fix issue #1020).
Properly close shared memory in NVLS resources.
Revert proxy detach after 5 seconds.
Add option to print progress during transport connect.
Add option to set NCCL_DEBUG to INFO on first WARN.
v2.19.4-1
2023-11-13 10:36:12 -08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
0e35f5d390 Merge tag 'v2.19.3-1' 2023-10-25 06:51:36 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
0b083e5209 2.18.6-1 v2.18.6-1 2023-10-10 00:34:18 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
8c6c595185 2.19.3-1
H800/H100 fixes and tuning.
Re-enable intra-process direct pointer buffer access when CUMEM is
enabled.
v2.19.3-1
2023-09-26 05:57:15 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
3435178b6c Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into v2.19 2023-09-26 05:55:56 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
f9c3dc251e 2.19.1-1
Add local user buffer registration for NVLink SHARP.
Add tuning plugin support.
Increase net API to v7 to allow for device-side packet reordering;
remove support for v4 plugins.
Add support for RoCE ECE.
Add support for C2C links.
Better detect SHM allocation failures to avoid crash with Bus Error.
Fix missing thread unlocks in bootstrap (Fixes #936).
Disable network flush by default on H100.
Move device code from src/collectives/device to src/device.
v2.19.1-1
2023-09-26 05:50:33 -07:00
Kaiming Ouyang
4365458757 Fix cudaMemcpyAsync bug
We are trying to use the copy result of first cudaMemcpyAsync in the
second cudaMemcpyAsync without sync in between. This patch fixes it
by allocating a CPU side array to cache device side addr so that we
can avoid this consecutive cuda mem copy.

Fixes #957
2023-09-20 05:51:14 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
559b70f86c 2.18.5-1
Fix NVLS search (issue #931).
Increase max IB NICs to 32.
Fix inconsistent device ordering (issue #820).
Try to use different devices for different GPUs in systems with
more than one NIC per GFU.
v2.18.5-1
2023-08-23 06:32:36 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
8ed014bae9 Fix inter-node NVLS graph search
We were passing a net ID instead of a gpu index, which could cause
crashes if those were unrelated (and they usually are).

Issue #931
2023-08-02 07:06:35 -07:00
Dmitrii Gabor
6e24ef4e1f Prevent WR index truncation in the InfiniBand transport plugin 2023-06-28 11:39:19 +02:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
ea38312273 2.18.3-1
Fix data corruption with Tree/LL128 on systems with 1GPU:1NIC.
Fix hang with Collnet on bfloat16 on systems with less than one NIC
per GPU.
Fix long initialization time.
Fix data corruption with Collnet when mixing multi-process and
multi-GPU per process.
Fix crash when shared memory creation fails.
Fix Avg operation with Collnet/Chain.
Fix performance of alltoall at scale with more than one NIC per GPU.
Fix performance for DGX H800.
Fix race condition in connection progress causing a crash.
Fix network flush with Collnet.
Fix performance of aggregated allGather/reduceScatter operations.
Fix PXN operation when CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES is set.
Fix NVTX3 compilation issues on Debian 10.
v2.18.3-1
2023-06-14 01:29:17 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
d97a32fac8 2.18.1-1
Add support for IB SHARP to NVLS (NVLink SHARP algorithm).
Add NVLS+Tree algorithm.
Add support for memory management using cuMem* functions.
Use all NICs for Send/Receive operations on systems with more than
one NIC per GPU (#804).
Add ncclCommSplit primitive, with resource sharing option in config.
Fix alltoallv hang (#788)
Increase number of channels on H100 when we're not limited by NVLink.
Improve error reporting in case of IB failure, printing local and
remote ID (#779).
Add build option to allow compilation against RDMA includes instead
of dynamically loading IB verbs symbols (#802).
Fix context creation for progress thread (#803).
NET/IB: add option to use multiple QPs in round-robin mode.
Fix tree performance issue when NVB is disabled on HCM topologies.
v2.18.1-1
2023-04-18 03:58:25 -07:00
David Addison
9b7d5edbfc
Merge pull request #822 from KaimingOuyang/github/pytorch-hang-fix
Shutdown socket before close in ncclSocketClose()
2023-04-14 19:52:45 -07:00
Kaiming Ouyang
006b6bc7dc Add a comment to shutdown() in ncclSocketClose 2023-04-13 09:13:44 -07:00
Kaiming Ouyang
367e9b61c3 Shutdown socket before close in ncclSocketClose() 2023-04-13 09:11:52 -07:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
5d3ab08b69 2.17.1-1
Add new NVLS algorithm for allreduce using NVLink SHARP (intra-node only).
Add new config options: cgaClusterSize, minCTAs, maxCTAs, netName.
Enable LL128 when we use PXN to close rings.
NVTX3 includes update.
Fix crash when one CollNet (SHARP) rail fails to initialize.
v2.17.1-1
2023-03-01 00:39:04 -08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
f3d5166783 2.16.5-1
Add support for 400Gbit NDR network adapters (CX7)
Handle EINTR in socket poll() function
Add NCCL_PROGRESS_APPENDOP_FREQ to control op append overhead
Resource cleanup fixes
Fix double free in case of init failure
Fix crash in ncclCommAbort
Revert AMD speed commit
v2.16.5-1
2023-02-02 12:52:47 -08:00
Rashika Kheria
93840e7476 Fix maximum handle size for NCCL Net v4 API
NCCL Net v4 supports a maximum handle size of 64 bytes whereas the
ext-net example header files set it for NCCL Net v3. Since,
`aws-ofi-nccl` plugin plans to follow the example header files, fix it
here.

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika@amazon.com>
2023-01-18 13:31:57 +01:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
28189e2df8 2.16.2-1
Add support for CUDA 12.0, drop Kepler (sm_35).
Support for H100 features.
Make socket code more robust and protected. Solves #555.
Improve performance on large CUDA graphs, reducing dependencies.
Reduce inter-socket bandwidth on AMD CPUs to favor better paths.
Various fixes to ncclCommAbort.
Make service thread polling resistant to EINTR.
Compile with profiling API by default.
Extend NVTX instrumentation with call arguments.
v2.16.2-1
2022-11-30 02:31:59 -08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
614b49f0de Fix google-fastsocket plugin build 2022-11-22 02:13:13 -08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
55b1d8ab98 Add documentation for NCCL NET plugins
Also repurpose dummy plugin as example, including headers and
compat layers from v6 to v2.
2022-11-22 02:12:53 -08:00
Sylvain Jeaugey
2f4cb874ba Merge tag 'v2.15.5-1' 2022-10-25 01:15:22 -07:00