feat: account for CUDA context memory - #304
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesCUDA primary-context accounting
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A primary CUDA context can remain uncharged when its initial memory measurement reports no positive allocation delta, causing container GPU usage to be underreported and limits to be exceeded. The charging path should be corrected before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CUDA as cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain
participant NVML as get_used_gpu_memory_by_pid
participant Accounting as context accounting
participant Memory as GPU memory accounting
CUDA->>NVML: measure primary-context memory
CUDA->>Accounting: record retain and calculate charge
Accounting->>Memory: apply GPU memory charge
Memory-->>CUDA: return charge result
CUDA->>Accounting: rollback retain on failure
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In `@src/cuda/context.c`:
- Around line 147-158: Update the primary-context retain accounting branch
around primary_context_record_accounted_retain and primary_context_record_retain
so a zero or otherwise unknown charge for an existing context is deferred rather
than treated as an out-of-memory failure. Reuse the existing deferred-charge
behavior provided by primary_context_record_retain, while preserving normal
accounted-retain handling when a measured charge is available and retaining the
existing rollback path for genuine accounting failures.
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In `@src/cuda/context.c`:
- Around line 149-163: Update the primary-context retain flow around
primary_context_record_accounted_retain so an ENODATA result does not record a
successful zero-byte retain that can never be charged later. Preserve the
pre-retain allocation baseline and complete the deferred measurement when NVML
first reports the process, or apply the established fallback charge; ensure
retain_count and charged_bytes reflect exactly one context charge, and add an
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| errno = 0; | ||
| int record_result = | ||
| (pidfound == 1) | ||
| ? primary_context_record_accounted_retain( | ||
| &context_accounting[dev], charge, &bytes_to_add) | ||
| : primary_context_record_retain(&context_accounting[dev], charge, | ||
| &bytes_to_add); | ||
| /* The driver retain already succeeded. An unknown context size must not | ||
| * fail the caller, so defer the charge to a later retain that knows it. */ | ||
| if (record_result != 0 && errno == ENODATA) { | ||
| LOG_WARN("Primary context size unknown on device %d; charge is " | ||
| "deferred to a later retain", dev); | ||
| record_result = primary_context_record_retain( | ||
| &context_accounting[dev], charge, &bytes_to_add); | ||
| } |
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rg -n -C 8 'primary_context_record_(accounted_)?retain|bytes_to_add|context_accounting' srcRepository: Project-HAMi/HAMi-core
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CUDA Driver API 12.2 cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain primary context remains active until release reset repeated retain allocation semantics
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In the CUDA Driver API, the primary context is a reference-counted resource managed per device, per process [1][2]. The function cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain initializes the primary context if it does not yet exist and increments its reference count [3][4]. Once retained, the primary context remains active and available to the user until it is either explicitly released or reset [3][4]. The lifecycle semantics are as follows: 1. Retention and Activation: A call to cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain returns a handle to the primary context [3][4]. Subsequent calls to this function within the same process will return the same context and increment the internal reference count [3][4]. 2. Release: The user must call cuDevicePrimaryCtxRelease when they are finished with the context [3][5]. Each release call decrements the reference count. The primary context is automatically reset (destroying all allocations and clearing all state) once the last reference to it is released [3][6]. 3. Reset: The function cuDevicePrimaryCtxReset forces an immediate destruction of all allocations and a reset of all state on the primary context, regardless of the current reference count [3][4]. This is typically reserved for recovery from errors or cleanup just before process exit [7]. Unlike standard context creation via cuCtxCreate, the primary context is not pushed onto the calling thread's stack [3][4]. Primary contexts are process-specific and cannot be shared across different processes [8]. If a primary context was originally initialized by the CUDA Runtime (in versions prior to 4.0), it may remain active even after release; however, for modern CUDA applications, the standard reference-counted lifecycle described above applies [3][5].
Citations:
- 1: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/12.2.1/pdf/CUDA_Driver_API.pdf
- 2: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/12.2.1/pdf/CUDA_Runtime_API.pdf
- 3: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/12.2.2/cuda-driver-api/group__CUDA__PRIMARY__CTX.html
- 4: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-driver-api/group__CUDA__PRIMARY__CTX.html
- 5: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/12.6.0/cuda-driver-api/group__CUDA__PRIMARY__CTX.html
- 6: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/12.3.1/cuda-driver-api/group__CUDA__PRIMARY__CTX.html
- 7: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/12.2.0/cuda-runtime-api/group__CUDART__DRIVER.html
- 8: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48444659/is-cudeviceprimaryctxretain-used-for-having-persistent-cuda-context-objects-be
Preserve a way to charge a deferred context.
When the initial NVML probes return no positive allocation delta, primary_context_record_accounted_retain returns ENODATA. Line 161 then increments retain_count with zero charged_bytes. A later retain returns the already-active primary context and may show no new allocation. The context can therefore remain uncharged until all retains are released.
Persist the original pre-retain baseline and complete the measurement when NVML first reports the process, or apply a defined fallback charge. Add an integration test that asserts the context is charged exactly once.
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In `@src/cuda/context.c` around lines 149 - 163, Update the primary-context retain
flow around primary_context_record_accounted_retain so an ENODATA result does
not record a successful zero-byte retain that can never be charged later.
Preserve the pre-retain allocation baseline and complete the deferred
measurement when NVML first reports the process, or apply the established
fallback charge; ensure retain_count and charged_bytes reflect exactly one
context charge, and add an integration test covering this behavior.
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Problem
HAMi already charges the primary context, but the bookkeeping is one flag.
set_task_pid()measures a single size into the globalcontext_size, andcuDevicePrimaryCtxRetaincharges that on every device, gated byctx_activate[dev], which is only ever 0 or 1.That flag isn't a refcount.
cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetainis: one process can retain the same context several times while the driver allocates once, and the memory only goes away on the last release. A 0/1 flag can't tell the second retain from the first, or the first release from the last. The one measured size also gets applied to every device whatever a context costs there. Andfork()leaves the child holding state it never created.Change
src/cuda/context_accounting.ckeeps a real retain count and the bytes charged, per device. It charges on the first retain, removes on the last release, rolls back if the shared accounting step fails, restores the charge if removal fails, and clears the counters in the fork child.context.cmeasures per device. It samples the process's device memory before and after the retain and charges the difference, which is whatget_used_gpu_memory_by_pid()is for. With no measurement it falls back tocontext_size, so no device is charged less than main charges it today.The
nvml_to_cuda_maphardening in #251'sallocator.candmemory.cis a separate concern and isn't here.Test
test/test_context_accounting.cneeds no GPU and no driver. It builds the productioncontext_accounting.cinto the test and covers the single charge, a nested retain that must not charge twice, release ordering, rollback, restore, the fork reset, and a context whose size can't be measured.