benchmark: add the Ampere (sm80) row to the peak-MMA table - #715
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The peak-MMA/SOL clock sampler indexed NVML with torch.cuda.current_device(), but NVML enumerates PHYSICAL GPUs and ignores CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES while torch indexes only the visible subset — so a shard pinned to GPU n via CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES always sampled physical GPU 0. When several single-GPU shards run side by side on a multi-GPU node, a shard whose neighbor GPU 0 has drained records GPU 0's IDLE clock as the window peak, collapsing the chart's MMA-max line and SOL% by the idle-vs-boost ratio (observed >10x too low on GB200/GB300). Map the torch index through CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES (index, UUID and MIG forms) before asking NVML for the handle. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_FLOPS_PER_CLOCK_PER_SM had sm90/sm100/sm12x entries only, so A100 runs computed no peak_mma_tflops and their charts drew no MMA-throughput max line. A100: 312 dense BF16/FP16 TFLOPS (FP32 accumulate; 624 is the sparsity figure) = 108 SMs x 1.41 GHz x 2048 FLOPs/clk/SM. No fp8/mxfp8 entries -- Ampere has neither datapath, and those cases already record unsupported. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe benchmark adds Ampere SM80 BF16/FP16 throughput data. It also maps Torch-visible devices to physical NVML handles through ChangesBenchmark device support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change adds Ampere peak-throughput reporting, but the benchmark can still sample the wrong GPU clock when device enumeration orders differ, producing incorrect performance limits and charts. Merge should wait for the device-UUID lookup fix and regression coverage. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Torch
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Torch->>CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES: Provide visible device index
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES->>NVML: Resolve numeric, UUID, or MIG entry
NVML->>Torch: Return physical device handle
Torch->>NVML: Sample SM clocks
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In `@benchmark/attention_training/benchmark_single_sdpa.py`:
- Line 95: Update the NVML handle lookup around nvmlDeviceGetHandleByIndex so
that, when CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES is unset, it resolves the Torch device’s UUID
and matches that UUID against NVML devices before using an index fallback.
Preserve correct behavior for masked devices, and add a regression test covering
reordered CUDA and NVML device enumeration so peak_mma_tflops samples the
intended GPU.
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| return pynvml.nvmlDeviceGetHandleByIndex(int(entry)) | ||
| # UUID ("GPU-...") or MIG ("MIG-...") form. | ||
| return pynvml.nvmlDeviceGetHandleByUUID(entry.encode()) | ||
| return pynvml.nvmlDeviceGetHandleByIndex(cuda_index) |
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env -u CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER=FASTEST_FIRST python - <<'PY'
import pynvml
import torch
pynvml.nvmlInit()
try:
for index in range(torch.cuda.device_count()):
torch_uuid = torch.cuda.get_device_properties(index).uuid
nvml_uuid = pynvml.nvmlDeviceGetUUID(
pynvml.nvmlDeviceGetHandleByIndex(index)
)
print(index, repr(torch_uuid), repr(nvml_uuid))
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pynvml.nvmlShutdown()
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cat -n benchmark/attention_training/benchmark_single_sdpa.py | sed -n '1,125p'
printf '%s\n' '--- references ---'
rg -n --glob '*.py' 'nvmlDeviceGetHandleBy(Index|UUID)|CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES|peak_mma_tflops|get_device_properties' .
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rg -n --hidden --glob '!*.pyc' 'CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER|FASTEST_FIRST|PCI_BUS_ID|nvmlDeviceGetHandleByUUID|nvmlDeviceGetUUID' README.md docs benchmark python test .github 2>/dev/null || true
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NVIDIA CUDA documentation CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER FASTEST_FIRST NVML index order CUDA device index UUID correlation
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The correlation between CUDA device indices and NVML indices is not guaranteed to be consistent, as they may follow different enumeration orderings [1][2]. CUDA Device Index Order The CUDA runtime enumeration order is controlled by the CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER environment variable [3][4]. 1. FASTEST_FIRST (Default): CUDA enumerates devices based on a heuristic that ranks them from fastest to slowest [3][4]. 2. PCI_BUS_ID: CUDA enumerates devices by their PCI bus ID in ascending order, which typically matches the order seen in tools like nvidia-smi [3][5][4]. NVML Index Order NVML (NVIDIA Management Library) typically enumerates devices in an order consistent with PCI bus enumeration [5]. However, because the CUDA runtime's default (FASTEST_FIRST) and NVML's enumeration may differ, a specific CUDA device index (e.g., 0) often does not correspond to the same physical hardware as the NVML index 0 [1][2]. Recommended Correlation Method Because device enumeration order can change between reboots, BIOS updates, or hardware configuration changes, relying on integer indices (both CUDA and NVML) is discouraged [5][6][2]. To reliably correlate a CUDA device with an NVML device, you should use hardware-specific identifiers that remain constant: - UUID: Use nvmlDeviceGetUUID to retrieve a unique identifier for the hardware [7]. You can map this to a CUDA device by querying its PCI bus ID or UUID via the CUDA API and matching it to the NVML-obtained UUID [7]. - PCI Bus ID: Use the PCI bus ID as a common key [5][7]. You can obtain the PCI bus ID for a CUDA device using cudaDeviceGetPCIBusId and for an NVML device using nvmlDeviceGetPciInfo [7]. For consistent indexing across your application, setting export CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER=PCI_BUS_ID in your environment is the recommended practice to align CUDA's enumeration with the PCI-based ordering used by nvidia-smi and NVML [5][7].
Citations:
- 1: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/different-index-definition-in-nvml-cuda-runtime/36968
- 2: https://nvidia.github.io/cuda-python/cuda-core/latest/generated/cuda.core.system.Device.html
- 3: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-programming-guide/05-appendices/environment-variables.html
- 4: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/13.3.0/cuda-programming-guide/05-appendices/environment-variables.html
- 5: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26123252/inconsistency-of-ids-between-nvidia-smi-l-and-cudevicegetname
- 6: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15961878/how-do-the-nvidia-drivers-assign-device-indices-to-gpus
- 7: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13781738/how-does-cuda-assign-device-ids-to-gpus
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python3 - <<'PY'
import ast
import os
from pathlib import Path
path = Path("benchmark/attention_training/benchmark_single_sdpa.py")
tree = ast.parse(path.read_text())
node = next(
n for n in tree.body
if isinstance(n, ast.FunctionDef) and n.name == "_nvml_handle_for_torch_device"
)
namespace = {}
exec(compile(ast.Module(body=[node], type_ignores=[]), str(path), "exec"), namespace)
resolve = namespace["_nvml_handle_for_torch_device"]
class FakeNvml:
def __init__(self):
self.calls = []
def nvmlDeviceGetHandleByIndex(self, index):
self.calls.append(("index", index))
return f"nvml-index-{index}"
def nvmlDeviceGetHandleByUUID(self, uuid):
self.calls.append(("uuid", uuid))
return f"nvml-uuid-{uuid.decode()}"
nvml = FakeNvml()
old = os.environ.pop("CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES", None)
try:
# Simulate CUDA index 0 naming GPU-B while NVML index 0 is GPU-A.
result = resolve(nvml, 0)
print("unset_cvd_result:", result)
print("unset_cvd_calls:", nvml.calls)
finally:
if old is not None:
os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = old
for cvd, index in [("3", 0), ("GPU-bbbb", 0), ("0, 2", 1)]:
nvml = FakeNvml()
os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = cvd
result = resolve(nvml, index)
print(f"cvd={cvd!r}, index={index}: result={result}, calls={nvml.calls}")
os.environ.pop("CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES", None)
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#!/bin/bash
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import ast
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from pathlib import Path
path = Path("benchmark/attention_training/benchmark_single_sdpa.py")
tree = ast.parse(path.read_text())
node = next(
n for n in tree.body
if isinstance(n, ast.FunctionDef) and n.name == "_nvml_handle_for_torch_device"
)
namespace = {"os": os}
exec(compile(ast.Module(body=[node], type_ignores=[]), str(path), "exec"), namespace)
resolve = namespace["_nvml_handle_for_torch_device"]
class FakeNvml:
def __init__(self):
self.calls = []
def nvmlDeviceGetHandleByIndex(self, index):
self.calls.append(("index", index))
return f"nvml-index-{index}"
def nvmlDeviceGetHandleByUUID(self, uuid):
self.calls.append(("uuid", uuid))
return f"nvml-uuid-{uuid.decode()}"
old = os.environ.pop("CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES", None)
try:
nvml = FakeNvml()
print("unset_cvd_result:", resolve(nvml, 0))
print("unset_cvd_calls:", nvml.calls)
finally:
if old is not None:
os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = old
for cvd, index in [("3", 0), ("GPU-bbbb", 0), ("0, 2", 1)]:
nvml = FakeNvml()
os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = cvd
print(f"cvd={cvd!r}, index={index}: result={resolve(nvml, index)}, calls={nvml.calls}")
os.environ.pop("CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES", None)
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Resolve the NVML handle by the Torch device UUID when CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES is unset. Different CUDA and NVML enumeration orders can make the index fallback sample another GPU's SM clock and misreport peak_mma_tflops. Add a regression test for reordered devices.
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In `@benchmark/attention_training/benchmark_single_sdpa.py` at line 95, Update the
NVML handle lookup around nvmlDeviceGetHandleByIndex so that, when
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES is unset, it resolves the Torch device’s UUID and matches
that UUID against NVML devices before using an index fallback. Preserve correct
behavior for masked devices, and add a regression test covering reordered CUDA
and NVML device enumeration so peak_mma_tflops samples the intended GPU.
Source: MCP tools
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Follow-up to #699 (which fixed WHICH GPU the clock sampler reads; this fixes a peak that was never computed at all):
_FLOPS_PER_CLOCK_PER_SMhas sm90/sm100/sm12x entries only, so A100 runs compute nopeak_mma_tflopsand their charts draw no MMA-throughput max line.A100: 312 dense BF16/FP16 TFLOPS (FP32 accumulate; 624 is the sparsity figure) = 108 SMs × 1.41 GHz × 2048 FLOPs/clk/SM. No fp8/mxfp8 entries — Ampere has neither datapath, and those cases already record unsupported.
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