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  • New Features

    • Chunked broadcast and gather enable handling of large objects in distributed runs.
    • Broadcast/gather methods now accept a configurable chunk_size parameter.
    • New helpers available for safe broadcast and gather operations.
    • Expanded multi-device support with additional TP/CP process groups.
  • Improvements

    • More resilient communication for large payloads across devices.
    • Enhanced flexibility for distributed operations via chunk-size tuning.

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Fix possible MPI issues on large object.

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Implements chunked, MPI-based broadcast and gather for large Python objects with new safe_broadcast and safe_gather helpers. MPIDist.broadcast/tp_broadcast/tp_gather now delegate to these helpers and accept a chunk_size parameter. TorchDist initializes additional TP/CP process groups. Imports updated to include mpi4py.MPI, pickle, math, and BuildInfo.ENABLE_MULTI_DEVICE.

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Chunked MPI helpers
tensorrt_llm/_torch/distributed/communicator.py
Added safe_broadcast and safe_gather: pickle-based serialization with header, chunked payload transfer, optional failure signaling, and reconstruction; guarded by ENABLE_MULTI_DEVICE.
MPIDist API updates
tensorrt_llm/_torch/distributed/communicator.py
MPIDist.broadcast now uses safe_broadcast; MPIDist.tp_broadcast and MPIDist.tp_gather delegate to safe_*; all accept chunk_size (default 4 MB).
Process group initialization
tensorrt_llm/_torch/distributed/communicator.py
TorchDist.init initializes additional TP/CP groups: device_tp_group, cpu_tp_group, device_cp_group, cpu_cp_group.
Imports and dependency adjustments
tensorrt_llm/_torch/distributed/communicator.py
Added imports: pickle, math, mpi4py.MPI, BuildInfo.ENABLE_MULTI_DEVICE; removed direct _utils.mpi_broadcast usage in favor of safe_broadcast.

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sequenceDiagram
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  participant Root as Root Rank
  participant Peers as Peer Ranks
  participant MPI as MPI Comm

  Note over Root,Peers: Chunked broadcast of a Python object

  Root->>Root: pickle.dumps(obj) -> bytes
  Root->>MPI: Bcast header {total_size, n_chunks, ok_flag}
  Peers->>MPI: Receive header

  alt ok_flag == true
    loop For each chunk
      Root->>MPI: Bcast chunk[i]
      Peers->>MPI: Receive chunk[i]
    end
    Peers->>Peers: Reassemble bytes, pickle.loads -> obj
  else ok_flag == false
    Note over Root,Peers: Abort/recover per header signal
  end
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sequenceDiagram
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  participant All as All Ranks
  participant Root as Root Rank
  participant MPI as MPI Comm

  Note over All: Chunked gather of Python objects

  All->>All: pickle.dumps(local_obj) -> local_bytes
  All->>MPI: Allgather lengths
  Root->>MPI: Gatherv chunked payloads using displacements
  Root->>Root: Reconstruct list by slicing payloads and pickle.loads
  All-->>All: Non-root returns None
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Actionable comments posted: 4

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tensorrt_llm/_torch/distributed/communicator.py (5)

12-15: Prefer module namespace imports for utils per guidelines

Guidelines say: “Maintain module namespace on import.” Consider import tensorrt_llm._utils as _utils and use _utils.mpi_comm() etc. This reduces symbol leakage and clarifies provenance.


120-133: Unify header broadcast path (optional)

The root rank Bcasts the header inside the exception path and other ranks Bcast once later. It works, but it’s brittle. Prefer setting ok_flag=0 and falling through to a single common Bcast to keep collective structure obvious.

Also applies to: 139-144


254-274: Guard against 32-bit displacements overflow in Gatherv

Many MPI impls require 32-bit counts/displacements. With very large aggregated payloads, displs32 can overflow silently. Add an explicit check to fail fast with a clear message.

         counts32 = counts64.astype(np.int32)
-        displs32 = round_displs64.astype(np.int32)
+        displs32 = round_displs64.astype(np.int32)
+        if (round_displs64 > np.iinfo(np.int32).max).any():
+            raise OverflowError(
+                "Gatherv displacements exceed 32-bit range; aggregated payload per round is too large. "
+                "Consider reducing per-rank object sizes or switching to a point-to-point gather."
+            )

If you want, I can prototype a point-to-point gather variant that avoids Gatherv’s 32-bit displacement limit.


211-214: Docstring: clarify return in non-MPI mode

Function returns [obj] when ENABLE_MULTI_DEVICE is False. Docstring currently says “On non-root: None” only.

-    Returns:
-        On root: list of deserialized objects (len == comm.size)
-        On non-root: None
+    Returns:
+        On root: list of deserialized objects (len == comm.size).
+        On non-root: None.
+        If ENABLE_MULTI_DEVICE is False, returns [obj] on the single process.

317-320: Pass-through looks good; ensure interface consistency

This delegates to safe_broadcast correctly. However, the abstract Distributed.broadcast signature does not include chunk_size, which may confuse users and static checkers.

Proposed update (outside this hunk) to the abstract base:

# In Distributed
@abstractmethod
def broadcast(self, obj, root=0, chunk_size: int = 4 * 1024 * 1024):
    """Broadcast object; subclasses may ignore chunk_size if not applicable."""
    pass

And mirror the optional parameter in TorchDist.broadcast signature for consistency, even if unused.

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355-357: tp_gather: good change; aligns with chunked gather helper

Delegation and signature are appropriate after adopting safe_gather.


359-361: tp_broadcast: good change; aligns with chunked broadcast helper

Delegation and signature are appropriate after adopting safe_broadcast.

Signed-off-by: Dongxu Yang <[email protected]>
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LGTM

@kaiyux kaiyux merged commit fb4b962 into NVIDIA:release/1.1.0rc2 Sep 3, 2025
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