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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Add support for improved fault tolerance: non-blocking mode, new
init function with config, and ncclCommFinalize function.
Reintroduce collnet+chain algorithm, alongside collnet+direct.
Add LL protocol for intra-node P2P (on by default) and network
communication (off by default).
Use network instead of shared memory when performance is better.
Fix: wait for CUDA graph destroy before destroying comm with linked
graph resources.
Remove aggressive polling during enqueue.
Fix DMABUF fallback on MOFED 5.4 and earlier.
Optimize CUDA graph launch; avoid launching a CPU callback for
intra-node operations.
Simplify kernel common code to improve the latency of send/recv
operations.
Strengthen CUDA streams semantics.
Change NET API to v6, to add dmabuf support.
Add ncclGetLastError() function.
Add ncclRemoteError code and use it for remote network errors.
Support the use of a different NCCL_NET parameter per communicator.
Add support for SHM and P2P transfers using cudaMemcpy.
Fix bug with CollNet
Fix bug with zero-bytes send/recv operations
Fix NCCL_PARAM implementation to avoid taking a lock on every call
Fix bug when setting NCCL_IB_QPS_PER_CONNECTION to more than one.
Improve error reporting for network errors.
Add network communication through another GPU connected with NVLink
(PXN).
Add aggregation of messages coming from different local GPUs through
PXN and going to the same destination.
Add new v5 plugin API with grouped receives and tags.
Add compat for v4 plugins.
Add naming of NCCL threads to help debugging.
Fix NVLink detection and avoid data corruption when some NVLinks are
down.
Add support for Relaxed Ordering for IB.
Add profiling and timing infrastructure.
Add support for bfloat16.
Add ncclAvg reduction operation.
Improve performance for aggregated operations.
Improve performance for tree.
Improve network error reporting.
Add NCCL_NET parameter to force a specific network.
Add NCCL_IB_QPS_PER_CONNECTION parameter to split IB traffic onto multiple queue pairs.
Fix topology detection error in WSL2.
Fix proxy memory elements affinity (improve alltoall performance).
Fix graph search on cubemesh topologies.
Fix hang in cubemesh during NVB connections.
Add support for CUDA graphs.
Fuse BCM Gen4 switches to avoid suboptimal performance on some platforms. Issue #439.
Fix bootstrap issue caused by connection reordering.
Fix CPU locking block.
Improve CollNet algorithm.
Improve performance on DGX A100 for communicators with only one GPU per node.
Optimization for Tree allreduce on A100.
Improve aggregation performance.
Use shared buffers for inter-node send/recv.
Add NVTX profiling hooks.
Accelerate alltoall connections by merging communication for all
channels.
Add support for one hop communication through NVLink, for faster
send/recv communication on cubemesh topologies like DGX-1.
Improve alltoall scheduling to better balance intra/inter node
communication.
Increase send/recv parallelism by 8x, each warp sending or
receiving to a different peer.
Net: move to v4.
Net: make flush operation asynchronous to accelerate alltoall.
Net: define maximum number of requests.
Fix hang when using LL128 protocol after 2^31 steps.
Fix#379 : topology injection failing when using less GPUs than
described in the XML.
Fix#394 : protocol mismatch causing hangs or crashes when using
one GPU per node.
Add support for network collectives.
Add support for XML topology dump/injection.
Add text values for GDR and P2P Levels, including "NVL".
Add speed detection for PCI, Infiniband and Ethernet cards.
Add CPU detection for ARM and AMD CPUs.
Add support for adaptive routing on Infiniband.
Change NET plugin API to v3 : merge PCI path and GPU pointer
capability into a single structure and add other properties.
