Paddle/paddle/fluid/memory/pinned_memory_test.cu

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#include <gtest/gtest.h>
#include <unordered_map>

#include "paddle/fluid/memory/detail/memory_block.h"
#include "paddle/fluid/memory/memcpy.h"
#include "paddle/fluid/memory/memory.h"

#include "paddle/fluid/platform/cpu_info.h"
#include "paddle/fluid/platform/gpu_info.h"
#include "paddle/fluid/platform/place.h"

// This unit test is an example comparing the performance between using pinned
// memory and not. In general, using pinned memory will be faster.
template <typename T>
__global__ void Kernel(T* output, int dim) {
  int tid = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
  if (tid < dim) {
    output[tid] = output[tid] * output[tid] / 100;
  }
}

template <typename Place>
float test_pinned_memory() {
  Place cpu_place;
  paddle::platform::CUDAPlace cuda_place;

  const int data_size = 4096;
  const int iteration = 10;

  // create event start and end
  cudaEvent_t start_e, stop_e, copying_e;
  float elapsedTime = 0;
  cudaEventCreate(&start_e);
  cudaEventCreate(&stop_e);
  cudaEventCreate(&copying_e);

  // create computation stream, data copying stream
  cudaStream_t computation_stream, copying_stream;
  cudaStreamCreate(&computation_stream);
  cudaStreamCreate(&copying_stream);

  // create record event, pinned memory, gpu memory
  std::vector<cudaEvent_t> record_event(iteration);
  std::vector<float*> input_pinned_mem(iteration);
  std::vector<float*> gpu_mem(iteration);
  std::vector<float*> output_pinned_mem(iteration);

  // initial data
  for (int j = 0; j < iteration; ++j) {
    cudaEventCreateWithFlags(&record_event[j], cudaEventDisableTiming);
    cudaEventCreate(&(record_event[j]));
    input_pinned_mem[j] = static_cast<float*>(
        paddle::memory::Alloc(cpu_place, data_size * sizeof(float)));
    output_pinned_mem[j] = static_cast<float*>(
        paddle::memory::Alloc(cpu_place, data_size * sizeof(float)));
    gpu_mem[j] = static_cast<float*>(
        paddle::memory::Alloc(cuda_place, data_size * sizeof(float)));

    for (int k = 0; k < data_size; ++k) {
      input_pinned_mem[j][k] = k;
    }
  }

  cudaEventRecord(start_e, computation_stream);

  // computation
  for (int m = 0; m < 30; ++m) {
    for (int i = 0; i < iteration; ++i) {
      // cpu -> GPU on computation stream.
      // note: this operation is async for pinned memory.
      paddle::memory::Copy(cuda_place, gpu_mem[i], cpu_place,
                           input_pinned_mem[i], data_size * sizeof(float),
                           computation_stream);

      // call kernel on computation stream.
      Kernel<<<4, 1024, 0, computation_stream>>>(gpu_mem[i], data_size);

      // record event_computation on computation stream
      cudaEventRecord(record_event[i], computation_stream);

      // wait event_computation on copy stream.
      // note: this operation is async.
      cudaStreamWaitEvent(copying_stream, record_event[i], 0);

      // copy data GPU->CPU, on copy stream.
      // note: this operation is async for pinned memory.
      paddle::memory::Copy(cpu_place, output_pinned_mem[i], cuda_place,
                           gpu_mem[i], data_size * sizeof(float),
                           copying_stream);
    }
  }

  cudaEventRecord(copying_e, copying_stream);
  cudaStreamWaitEvent(computation_stream, copying_e, 0);

  cudaEventRecord(stop_e, computation_stream);

  cudaEventSynchronize(start_e);
  cudaEventSynchronize(stop_e);
  cudaEventElapsedTime(&elapsedTime, start_e, stop_e);

  // std::cout << cpu_place << " "
  //          << "time consume:" << elapsedTime / 30 << std::endl;

  for (int l = 0; l < iteration; ++l) {
    for (int k = 0; k < data_size; ++k) {
      float temp = input_pinned_mem[l][k];
      temp = temp * temp / 100;
      EXPECT_FLOAT_EQ(temp, output_pinned_mem[l][k]);
    }
  }

  // destroy resource
  cudaEventDestroy(copying_e);
  cudaEventDestroy(start_e);
  cudaEventDestroy(stop_e);
  for (int j = 0; j < 10; ++j) {
    cudaEventDestroy((record_event[j]));
    paddle::memory::Free(cpu_place, input_pinned_mem[j]);
    paddle::memory::Free(cpu_place, output_pinned_mem[j]);
    paddle::memory::Free(cuda_place, gpu_mem[j]);
  }
  return elapsedTime / 30;
}

TEST(CPUANDCUDAPinned, CPUAllocatorAndCUDAPinnedAllocator) {
  // Generally speaking, operation on pinned_memory is faster than that on
  // unpinned-memory, but if this unit test fails frequently, please close this
  // test for the time being.
  float time1 = test_pinned_memory<paddle::platform::CPUPlace>();
  float time2 = test_pinned_memory<paddle::platform::CUDAPinnedPlace>();
  EXPECT_GT(time1, time2);
}