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37 #include "thread_affinity.h"
45 #ifdef HAVE_SCHED_AFFINITY
47 # include <sys/syscall.h>
50 #include "thread_mpi/threads.h"
52 #include "gromacs/gmxlib/gmx_omp_nthreads.h"
53 #include "gromacs/gmxlib/md_logging.h"
54 #include "gromacs/hardware/hardwaretopology.h"
55 #include "gromacs/hardware/hw_info.h"
56 #include "gromacs/mdtypes/commrec.h"
57 #include "gromacs/utility/basenetwork.h"
58 #include "gromacs/utility/cstringutil.h"
59 #include "gromacs/utility/exceptions.h"
60 #include "gromacs/utility/fatalerror.h"
61 #include "gromacs/utility/gmxassert.h"
62 #include "gromacs/utility/gmxomp.h"
63 #include "gromacs/utility/programcontext.h"
64 #include "gromacs/utility/scoped_cptr.h"
65 #include "gromacs/utility/smalloc.h"
69 get_thread_affinity_layout(FILE *fplog
,
71 const gmx_hw_info_t
* hwinfo
,
73 int pin_offset
, int * pin_stride
,
77 int hwThreadsPerCore
= 0;
81 const gmx::HardwareTopology
&hwTop
= *hwinfo
->hardwareTopology
;
83 haveTopology
= (hwTop
.supportLevel() >= gmx::HardwareTopology::SupportLevel::Basic
);
87 gmx_fatal(FARGS
, "Negative thread pinning offset requested");
91 gmx_fatal(FARGS
, "Negative thread pinning stride requested");
96 hwThreads
= hwTop
.machine().logicalProcessorCount
;
97 // Just use the value for the first core
98 hwThreadsPerCore
= hwTop
.machine().sockets
[0].cores
[0].hwThreads
.size();
99 snew(*localityOrder
, hwThreads
);
101 for (auto &s
: hwTop
.machine().sockets
)
103 for (auto &c
: s
.cores
)
105 for (auto &t
: c
.hwThreads
)
107 (*localityOrder
)[i
++] = t
.logicalProcessorId
;
114 /* topology information not available or invalid, ignore it */
115 hwThreads
= hwinfo
->nthreads_hw_avail
;
116 *localityOrder
= NULL
;
120 /* We don't know anything about the hardware, don't pin */
121 md_print_warn(cr
, fplog
,
122 "NOTE: No information on available cores, thread pinning disabled.");
128 if (threads
> hwThreads
)
130 /* We are oversubscribing, don't pin */
131 md_print_warn(NULL
, fplog
,
132 "NOTE: Oversubscribing the CPU, will not pin threads");
137 if (pin_offset
+ threads
> hwThreads
)
139 /* We are oversubscribing, don't pin */
140 md_print_warn(NULL
, fplog
,
141 "WARNING: Requested offset too large for available cores, thread pinning disabled.");
147 /* do we need to choose the pinning stride? */
148 bPickPinStride
= (*pin_stride
== 0);
152 if (haveTopology
&& pin_offset
+ threads
*hwThreadsPerCore
<= hwThreads
)
154 /* Put one thread on each physical core */
155 *pin_stride
= hwThreadsPerCore
;
159 /* We don't know if we have SMT, and if we do, we don't know
160 * if hw threads in the same physical core are consecutive.
161 * Without SMT the pinning layout should not matter too much.
162 * so we assume a consecutive layout and maximally spread out"
163 * the threads at equal threads per core.
164 * Note that IBM is the major non-x86 case with cpuid support
165 * and probably threads are already pinned by the queuing system,
166 * so we wouldn't end up here in the first place.
168 *pin_stride
= (hwThreads
- pin_offset
)/threads
;
173 /* Check the placement of the thread with the largest index to make sure
174 * that the offset & stride doesn't cause pinning beyond the last hardware thread. */
175 if (pin_offset
+ (threads
-1)*(*pin_stride
) >= hwThreads
)
177 /* We are oversubscribing, don't pin */
178 md_print_warn(NULL
, fplog
,
179 "WARNING: Requested stride too large for available cores, thread pinning disabled.");
187 fprintf(fplog
, "Pinning threads with a%s logical core stride of %d\n",
188 bPickPinStride
? "n auto-selected" : " user-specified",
195 /* Set CPU affinity. Can be important for performance.
196 On some systems (e.g. Cray) CPU Affinity is set by default.
197 But default assigning doesn't work (well) with only some ranks
198 having threads. This causes very low performance.
199 External tools have cumbersome syntax for setting affinity
200 in the case that only some ranks have threads.
201 Thus it is important that GROMACS sets the affinity internally
202 if only PME is using threads.
205 gmx_set_thread_affinity(FILE *fplog
,
207 const gmx_hw_opt_t
*hw_opt
,
208 const gmx_hw_info_t
*hwinfo
)
210 int nth_affinity_set
, thread0_id_node
,
211 nthread_local
, nthread_node
;
213 int * localityOrder
= nullptr;
216 if (hw_opt
->thread_affinity
== threadaffOFF
)
222 /* If the tMPI thread affinity setting is not supported encourage the user
223 * to report it as it's either a bug or an exotic platform which we might
224 * want to support. */
225 if (tMPI_Thread_setaffinity_support() != TMPI_SETAFFINITY_SUPPORT_YES
)
227 /* we know Mac OS & BlueGene do not support setting thread affinity, so there's
228 no point in warning the user in that case. In any other case
229 the user might be able to do something about it. */
230 #if !defined(__APPLE__) && !defined(__bg__)
231 md_print_warn(NULL
, fplog
,
232 "NOTE: Cannot set thread affinities on the current platform.");
233 #endif /* __APPLE__ */
237 /* threads on this MPI process or TMPI thread */
238 if (cr
->duty
& DUTY_PP
)
240 nthread_local
= gmx_omp_nthreads_get(emntNonbonded
);
244 nthread_local
= gmx_omp_nthreads_get(emntPME
);
247 /* map the current process to cores */
249 nthread_node
= nthread_local
;
251 if (PAR(cr
) || MULTISIM(cr
))
253 /* We need to determine a scan of the thread counts in this
258 MPI_Comm_split(MPI_COMM_WORLD
,
259 gmx_physicalnode_id_hash(), cr
->rank_intranode
,
261 MPI_Scan(&nthread_local
, &thread0_id_node
, 1, MPI_INT
, MPI_SUM
, comm_intra
);
262 /* MPI_Scan is inclusive, but here we need exclusive */
263 thread0_id_node
-= nthread_local
;
264 /* Get the total number of threads on this physical node */
265 MPI_Allreduce(&nthread_local
, &nthread_node
, 1, MPI_INT
, MPI_SUM
, comm_intra
);
266 MPI_Comm_free(&comm_intra
);
270 if (hw_opt
->thread_affinity
== threadaffAUTO
&&
271 nthread_node
!= hwinfo
->nthreads_hw_avail
)
273 if (nthread_node
> 1 && nthread_node
< hwinfo
->nthreads_hw_avail
)
275 md_print_warn(cr
, fplog
,
276 "NOTE: The number of threads is not equal to the number of (logical) cores\n"
277 " and the -pin option is set to auto: will not pin thread to cores.\n"
278 " This can lead to significant performance degradation.\n"
279 " Consider using -pin on (and -pinoffset in case you run multiple jobs).\n");
286 if (hw_opt
->core_pinning_offset
!= 0)
288 offset
= hw_opt
->core_pinning_offset
;
289 md_print_info(cr
, fplog
, "Applying core pinning offset %d\n", offset
);
292 int core_pinning_stride
= hw_opt
->core_pinning_stride
;
293 rc
= get_thread_affinity_layout(fplog
, cr
, hwinfo
,
295 offset
, &core_pinning_stride
,
297 gmx::scoped_guard_sfree
localityOrderGuard(localityOrder
);
301 /* Incompatible layout, don't pin, warning was already issued */
305 /* Set the per-thread affinity. In order to be able to check the success
306 * of affinity settings, we will set nth_affinity_set to 1 on threads
307 * where the affinity setting succeded and to 0 where it failed.
308 * Reducing these 0/1 values over the threads will give the total number
309 * of threads on which we succeeded.
312 // To avoid warnings from the static analyzer we initialize nth_affinity_set
313 // to zero outside the OpenMP block, and then add to it inside the block.
314 // The value will still always be 0 or 1 from each thread.
315 nth_affinity_set
= 0;
316 #pragma omp parallel num_threads(nthread_local) reduction(+:nth_affinity_set)
320 int thread_id
, thread_id_node
;
322 gmx_bool setaffinity_ret
;
324 thread_id
= gmx_omp_get_thread_num();
325 thread_id_node
= thread0_id_node
+ thread_id
;
326 index
= offset
+ thread_id_node
*core_pinning_stride
;
327 if (localityOrder
!= nullptr)
329 core
= localityOrder
[index
];
336 setaffinity_ret
= tMPI_Thread_setaffinity_single(tMPI_Thread_self(), core
);
338 /* store the per-thread success-values of the setaffinity */
339 nth_affinity_set
+= (setaffinity_ret
== 0);
343 fprintf(debug
, "On rank %2d, thread %2d, index %2d, core %2d the affinity setting returned %d\n",
344 cr
->nodeid
, gmx_omp_get_thread_num(), index
, core
, setaffinity_ret
);
347 GMX_CATCH_ALL_AND_EXIT_WITH_FATAL_ERROR
;
350 if (nth_affinity_set
> nthread_local
)
354 sprintf(msg
, "Looks like we have set affinity for more threads than "
355 "we have (%d > %d)!\n", nth_affinity_set
, nthread_local
);
360 /* check & warn if some threads failed to set their affinities */
361 if (nth_affinity_set
!= nthread_local
)
363 char sbuf1
[STRLEN
], sbuf2
[STRLEN
];
365 /* sbuf1 contains rank info, while sbuf2 OpenMP thread info */
366 sbuf1
[0] = sbuf2
[0] = '\0';
367 /* Only add rank info if we have more than one rank. */
371 #ifdef GMX_THREAD_MPI
372 sprintf(sbuf1
, "In tMPI thread #%d: ", cr
->nodeid
);
373 #else /* GMX_LIB_MPI */
374 sprintf(sbuf1
, "In MPI process #%d: ", cr
->nodeid
);
379 if (nthread_local
> 1)
381 sprintf(sbuf2
, "for %d/%d thread%s ",
382 nthread_local
- nth_affinity_set
, nthread_local
,
383 nthread_local
> 1 ? "s" : "");
386 md_print_warn(NULL
, fplog
,
387 "NOTE: %sAffinity setting %sfailed. This can cause performance degradation.\n"
388 " If you think your settings are correct, ask on the gmx-users list.",
395 /* Check the process affinity mask and if it is found to be non-zero,
396 * will honor it and disable mdrun internal affinity setting.
397 * Note that this will only work on Linux as we use a GNU feature.
400 gmx_check_thread_affinity_set(FILE *fplog
,
402 gmx_hw_opt_t
*hw_opt
,
403 int gmx_unused nthreads_hw_avail
,
404 gmx_bool bAfterOpenmpInit
)
406 GMX_RELEASE_ASSERT(hw_opt
, "hw_opt must be a non-NULL pointer");
408 if (!bAfterOpenmpInit
)
410 /* Check for externally set OpenMP affinity and turn off internal
411 * pinning if any is found. We need to do this check early to tell
412 * thread-MPI whether it should do pinning when spawning threads.
413 * TODO: the above no longer holds, we should move these checks later
415 if (hw_opt
->thread_affinity
!= threadaffOFF
)
418 if (!gmx_omp_check_thread_affinity(&message
))
420 /* TODO: with -pin auto we should only warn when using all cores */
421 md_print_warn(cr
, fplog
, "%s", message
);
423 hw_opt
->thread_affinity
= threadaffOFF
;
427 /* With thread-MPI this is needed as pinning might get turned off,
428 * which needs to be known before starting thread-MPI.
429 * With thread-MPI hw_opt is processed here on the master rank
430 * and passed to the other ranks later, so we only do this on master.
436 #ifndef GMX_THREAD_MPI
441 #ifdef HAVE_SCHED_AFFINITY
443 cpu_set_t mask_current
;
445 if (hw_opt
->thread_affinity
== threadaffOFF
)
447 /* internal affinity setting is off, don't bother checking process affinity */
451 CPU_ZERO(&mask_current
);
452 if ((ret
= sched_getaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t
), &mask_current
)) != 0)
454 /* failed to query affinity mask, will just return */
457 fprintf(debug
, "Failed to query affinity mask (error %d)", ret
);
462 /* Before proceeding with the actual check, make sure that the number of
463 * detected CPUs is >= the CPUs in the current set.
464 * We need to check for CPU_COUNT as it was added only in glibc 2.6. */
466 if (nthreads_hw_avail
< CPU_COUNT(&mask_current
))
470 fprintf(debug
, "%d hardware threads detected, but %d was returned by CPU_COUNT",
471 nthreads_hw_avail
, CPU_COUNT(&mask_current
));
475 #endif /* CPU_COUNT */
477 gmx_bool bAllSet
= TRUE
;
478 for (int i
= 0; (i
< nthreads_hw_avail
&& i
< CPU_SETSIZE
); i
++)
480 bAllSet
= bAllSet
&& (CPU_ISSET(i
, &mask_current
) != 0);
484 gmx_bool bAllSet_All
;
486 MPI_Allreduce(&bAllSet
, &bAllSet_All
, 1, MPI_INT
, MPI_LAND
, MPI_COMM_WORLD
);
487 bAllSet
= bAllSet_All
;
492 if (hw_opt
->thread_affinity
== threadaffAUTO
)
494 if (!bAfterOpenmpInit
)
496 md_print_warn(cr
, fplog
,
497 "Non-default thread affinity set, disabling internal thread affinity");
501 md_print_warn(cr
, fplog
,
502 "Non-default thread affinity set probably by the OpenMP library,\n"
503 "disabling internal thread affinity");
505 hw_opt
->thread_affinity
= threadaffOFF
;
509 /* Only warn once, at the last check (bAfterOpenmpInit==TRUE) */
510 if (bAfterOpenmpInit
)
512 md_print_warn(cr
, fplog
,
513 "Overriding thread affinity set outside %s\n",
514 gmx::getProgramContext().displayName());
520 fprintf(debug
, "Non-default affinity mask found\n");
527 fprintf(debug
, "Default affinity mask found\n");
530 #endif /* HAVE_SCHED_AFFINITY */