Faster GPU frozen BatchNorm

src/common/cuda_utils.h

@@ -764,27 +764,86 @@ __device__ inline DType ldg(const DType* address) {
 #endif
 }
 
-template <typename OP, typename T>
+namespace mxnet {
+namespace common {
+/*! \brief common utils for cuda */
+namespace cuda {
+
+static constexpr const int warp_size = 32;
+
+/*! \brief Reduction inside a warp.
+ * Template parameters:
+ * NVALUES - number of values to reduce (defaults to warp_size).
+ * \param value - values to be reduced.
+ * \param redfun - function used to perform reduction.
+ */
+template <int NVALUES = warp_size, typename OP, typename T>
 __device__ inline T warp_reduce(T value, OP redfun) {
-  value = redfun(value, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, value, 16));
-  value = redfun(value, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, value, 8));
-  value = redfun(value, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, value, 4));
-  value = redfun(value, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, value, 2));
-  value = redfun(value, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, value, 1));
+#pragma unroll
+  for (int i = warp_size / 2; i >= 1; i /= 2) {
+    if (NVALUES > i) value = redfun(value, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, value, i));
+  }
   return value;
 }
 
-template <typename OP>
+template <int NValues = warp_size, typename OP>
 __device__ inline mshadow::half::half_t warp_reduce(mshadow::half::half_t value, OP redfun) {
   float v = static_cast<float>(value);
-  v = redfun(v, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, v, 16));
-  v = redfun(v, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, v, 8));
-  v = redfun(v, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, v, 4));
-  v = redfun(v, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, v, 2));
-  v = redfun(v, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, v, 1));
+#pragma unroll
+  for (int i = warp_size / 2; i >= 1; i /= 2) {
+    if (NValues > i) v = redfun(v, __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, v, i));
+  }
   return mshadow::half::half_t(v);
 }
 
+/*! \brief Reduction inside a block, requires all threads in a block to participate.
+ *         It uses a 2 step approach:
+ *          - all warps in a block perform intermediate reduction
+ *          - first warp reduces the intermediate results.
+ * Template parameters:
+ * NTHREADS - number of threads in a block.
+ * all_reduce - whether all threads need the result of the reduction. If set to
+ *              true, then all threads return with the same value. If set to
+ *              false, then only thread 0 has the valid result. Defaults to true.
+ * \param value - value from each thread to be reduced
+ * \param redfun - function used to perform reduction
+ */
+template <int NTHREADS, bool all_reduce = true, typename OP, typename T>
+__device__ inline T reduce(const T& value, OP redfun) {
+  static_assert(NTHREADS <= warp_size * warp_size,
+                "Number of threads too large for reduction");
+  __shared__ T scratch[NTHREADS / warp_size];
+  const int my_id = threadIdx.x % warp_size;
+  const int my_warp = threadIdx.x / warp_size;
+  const T my_val = warp_reduce<warp_size>(value, redfun);
+  if (my_id == 0) {
+    scratch[my_warp] = my_val;
+  }
+  __syncthreads();
+  T ret = 0;
+  if (my_warp == 0) {
+    const T prev_val = threadIdx.x < (NTHREADS / warp_size) ? scratch[threadIdx.x] : 0;
+    const T my_val = warp_reduce<NTHREADS / warp_size>(prev_val, redfun);
+    if (all_reduce) {
+      scratch[threadIdx.x] = my_val;
+    } else {
+      ret = my_val;
+    }
+  }
+  // Necessary to synchronize in order to use this function again
+  // as the shared memory scratch space is reused between calls
+  __syncthreads();
+  if (all_reduce) {
+    ret = scratch[0];
+    __syncthreads();
+  }
+  return ret;
+}
+
+}  // namespace cuda
+}  // namespace common
+}  // namespace mxnet
+
 #endif  // __CUDACC__
 
 #endif  // MXNET_COMMON_CUDA_UTILS_H_

src/operator/nn/batch_norm.cc

@@ -597,11 +597,9 @@ NNVM_REGISTER_OP(_backward_BatchNorm)
 .set_num_outputs(3)
 .set_attr<nnvm::TIsBackward>("TIsBackward", true)
 .set_attr<FInferStorageType>("FInferStorageType", BatchNormStorageType)
-#if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 1
 .set_attr<FResourceRequest>("FResourceRequest", [](const NodeAttrs& n) {
   return std::vector<ResourceRequest>{ResourceRequest::kTempSpace};
 })
-#endif
 .set_attr_parser(ParamParser<BatchNormParam>)
 #if MXNET_USE_MKLDNN == 1
 .set_attr<bool>("TIsMKLDNN", true)