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.
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 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.
Kamil Iskra
Sylvain Jeaugey