【CUDA】Nsight profile驱动的CUDA优化

前置准备

• 安装NVIDIA Nsight Compute。 安装好后选择使用管理员权限启动
• 下载官方 Demo 代码
• 官方博客
• Shuffle warp

1. 任务介绍及CPU版本

1.1 任务介绍

任务理解：

• 有一个 L x M 的矩阵 $M_1$ 对其每行取平均值 得到 $V_1\in {\mathbb{R}}^{L\times 1}$ 的列向量
• 有一个 L x L 的矩阵 $M_2$ 与 $V_1$做矩阵乘法，最后得到 $V_2\in {\mathbb{R}}^{L\times 1}$ 的列向量

1.2 CPU版本实现

/**input: input 矩阵，维度为(N, L, M) N为Batchoutput: ouput 矩阵，维度为(N, L)matrix: matrix 维度为(L, L)
*/
template <typename T>
void cpu_version1(T *input, T *output, T *matrix, int L, int M, int N){
#pragma omp parallel forfor (int k = 0; k < N; k++){      // repeat the following, N timesstd::vector<T> v1(L);           // vector length of Lfor (int i = 0; i < M; i++)     // compute average vector over M input vectorsfor (int j = 0; j < L; j++)v1[j] += input[k*M*L+j*M+i];for (int j = 0; j < L; j++)v1[j] /= M;for (int i = 0; i < L; i++)     // matrix-vector multiplyfor (int j = 0; j < L; j++)output[i*N+k] += matrix[i*L+j]*v1[j];}
}

1.3 计时逻辑

#include <time.h>
#ifdef __linux__
#define USECPSEC 1000000ULL
#include <sys/time.h>
unsigned long long dtime_usec(unsigned long long start){timeval tv;gettimeofday(&tv, 0);return ((tv.tv_sec*USECPSEC)+tv.tv_usec)-start;
}
#elif defined(WIN32)
#include <windows.h>
double dtime_usec(double start) {LARGE_INTEGER frequency;        // ticks per secondLARGE_INTEGER t1;               // ticksdouble elapsedTime;// get ticks per secondQueryPerformanceFrequency(&frequency);// get current timeQueryPerformanceCounter(&t1);// compute the elapsed time in micro-second resolution(毫秒)elapsedTime = (t1.QuadPart - start) * 1000000.0 / frequency.QuadPart;return elapsedTime;
}
#endif

1.4 main函数

typedef double ft;int main(){ft *d_input, *h_input, *d_output, *h_outputc, *h_outputg, *d_matrix, *h_matrix;int L = my_L; int M = my_M; int N = my_N;// host allocationsh_input   = new ft[N*L*M];h_matrix  = new ft[L*L];h_outputg = new ft[N*L];h_outputc = new ft[N*L];// data initializationfor (int i = 0; i < N*L*M; i++) h_input[i] = (rand()&1)+1;  // 1 or 2for (int i = 0; i < L*L; i++) h_matrix[i]  = (rand()&1)+1;  // 1 or 2// create result to test for correctnessLARGE_INTEGER st;double dt;QueryPerformanceCounter(&st);  // 获取起始时间点cpu_version1(h_input, h_outputc, h_matrix, L, M, N);dt = dtime_usec(st.QuadPart);std::cout << "CPU execution time: \t" << dt / 1000.0f << "ms" << std::endl;// device allocationscudaMalloc(&d_input, N*L*M*sizeof(ft));cudaMalloc(&d_output,  N*L*sizeof(ft));cudaMalloc(&d_matrix,  L*L*sizeof(ft));cudaCheckErrors("cudaMalloc failure");// copy input data from host to devicecudaMemcpy(d_input,  h_input,  N*L*M*sizeof(ft), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);cudaMemcpy(d_matrix, h_matrix,   L*L*sizeof(ft), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);cudaMemset(d_output, 0, N*L*sizeof(ft));cudaCheckErrors("cudaMemcpy/Memset failure");// run on device and measure execution timeQueryPerformanceCounter(&st);  // 获取起始时间点gpu_version1<<<1, L>>>(d_input, d_output, d_matrix, L, M, N);cudaCheckErrors("kernel launch failure");cudaDeviceSynchronize();cudaCheckErrors("kernel execution failure");dt = dtime_usec(st.QuadPart);cudaMemcpy(h_outputg, d_output, N*L*sizeof(ft), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);cudaCheckErrors("cudaMemcpy failure");for (int i = 0; i < N*L; i++) if (h_outputg[i] != h_outputc[i]) {std::cout << "Mismatch at " << i << " was: " << h_outputg[i] << " should be: " << h_outputc[i] << std::endl; return 0;}std::cout << "Kernel execution time: \t" << dt / 1000.0f << "ms" << std::endl;return 0;
}

2. GPU version1

2.1 实现

template<typename T>
__global__ void gpu_version1(const T * __restrict__ input, T * __restrict__ output, const T * __restrict__ matrix,const int L,const int M, const int N
)
{___shared__ T smem[L];int idx = threadIdx.x;// 以此处理N个Batchfor(int k = 0; k < N; i++){T v = 0;for(int i = 0; i < M; ++i){v += input[K * M * L + M * idx + i]}v /= M;for(int row = 0; row < L; ++row) {smem[idx] = v * M[idx * L + row];// 对矩阵乘法求和for(int s = blockDim.x >> 1; s > 0; s >>=1){__syncthreads();if (idx < s) smem[threadIdx.x] += smem[threadIdx.x + s];}if (!threadIdx.x) ouput[i*N + row] = smem[0];}}
}const int L = 512; // maximum 1024
const int M = 512;
const int N = 1024;
// 调用核函数
gpu_version1<<<1, L>>>(d_input, d_output, d_matrix, L, M, N);

2.2 时间对比

CPU execution time:     2764.96ms
Kernel execution time:  1508.34ms

2.3 Nsight 分析

可以看到，这里This kernel grid is too small to fill the available resources on this device, resulting in only 0.0 full waves across all SMs.这里说我们的 grid size 设置得太小了，没有充分利用SM。下一版我们增大 Graid size

3. 增加GridSize

3.1 实现

分析上一个核函数调用：

gpu_version1<<<1, L>>>(d_input, d_output, d_matrix, L, M, N);

这里grid size是1,这里可以考虑把这个设置为 Batch size 即 N

gpu_version1<<<N, L>>>(d_input, d_output, d_matrix, L, M, N);

对应得核函数修改, 其实就是 把k 替换成了 blockIdx.x

template <typename T>
__global__ void gpu_version2(const T* __restrict__ input, T* __restrict__ output, const T* __restrict__ matrix, const int L, const int M, const int N) {// parallelize threadIdx.x over vector length, and blockIdx.x across k (N)__shared__ T smem[my_L];int idx = threadIdx.x;int k = blockIdx.x;T v1 = 0;for (int i = 0; i < M; i++)v1 += input[k * M * L + idx * M + i];v1 /= M;for (int i = 0; i < L; i++) {__syncthreads();smem[threadIdx.x] = v1 * matrix[i * L + idx];for (int s = blockDim.x >> 1; s > 0; s >>= 1) {__syncthreads();if (threadIdx.x < s) smem[threadIdx.x] += smem[threadIdx.x + s];}if (!threadIdx.x) output[k + i * N] = smem[0];}
}

3.2 时间对比

CPU execution time:     	3219.04ms
Kernel execution timev1:  	1508.34ms
Kernel execution timev2:  	91.4291ms

可以看到相对v1 提高了15倍 +

3.3 Nsight 分析

3.3.1 概览

相比上一个版本，SM和memory的利用率明显提高了。

3.3.2 Memoy Workload Analysis

The memory access pattern for global loads in L1TEX might not be optimal. On average, this kernel accesses 8.0 bytes per thread per memory request; but the address pattern, possibly caused by the stride between threads, results in 20.0 sectors per request, or 20.032 = 639.3 bytes of cache data transfers per request. The optimal thread address pattern for 8.0 byte accesses would result in 8.032 = 256.0 bytes of cache data transfers per request, to maximize L1TEX cache performance. Check the  Source Counters section for uncoalesced global loads.
在 L1TEX中，全局加载的内存访问模式可能不是最优的。平均来说，这个kernel 每个线程每次内存请内存会访问8 字节，但是当前的地址模式，可能由于线程之间的跨度导致每次请求了20个 sectors， 每次请求的缓存传输为 20 * 32 = 649.3 字节。对于8字节的访问，最优的线程地址模式使用的缓存传输数据为 8 * 32 = 256字节，为了最大化L1TEX缓存性能，检查没有 coalesed （合并）访问的全局加载。

为什么会导致这么高 ? 可以通过 source页面

可以发现高亮的这一句进行了大量的L2 Cache访问操作，为什么这一句会导致访问不合并呢？
是因为每次for循环都隔了 idx * M 个数据，导致缓存失效，如何解决这个问题呢？看下一节