Add scalable init API
* Add new ncclCommInitRankScalable to allow for passing multiple
unique IDs to the init function.
* Spreads the load onto multiple bootstrap roots, allowing for
constant bootstrap time.
* Requires multiple ranks to create a unique ID, and the CPU-side
ID exchange code to call allgather[v] instead of broadcast.
Accelerate init bootstrap operations
* Reduce the number of calls to allgather.
* Allow roots to reply early to ranks when information is already
available.
* Add an option to use ncclNet instead of sockets to perform
bootstrap allgather operations.
Add PAT algorithms for Allgather and ReduceScatter
* Parallel Aggregated Trees, variation of Bruck algorithm.
* Logarithmic number of network steps for small sizes at scale.
* Only supports one rank per node at the moment.
Add support for registered buffers for intra-node communication.
* Allow registered user buffers to be accessed directly intra-node
* Avoids extra copies in algorithms which permit it, saving
memory bandwidth and helping with compute overlap.
Add profiler plugin API
* New plugin API for profiling
* Supports various levels of profiling, with a hierarchy.
Asynchronous graph allocation
* Make calls to cudaMalloc and cudaMemcpy during graph allocation
asynchronous.
* Significantly speeds up graph capture.
Use fatal IB asynchronous events to stop network operation
* Avoids many other error messages
* Only fatal errors are affected; potentially transient errors
(e.g. port down) do not cause an immediate stop.
Set P2P level to PXB on AMD CPUs when using more than 2 GPUs per node
* P2P would cause a significant performance degradation when using
many GPUs, and therefore many interleaved data flows.
* Disable P2P through the CPU when we have 3+ GPUs per node; keep it
enabled when we only have 2 GPUs.
Improve the init logs to report the real NCCL function.
* Make the log report ncclCommInitRank or ncclCommSplit, rather than
the generic ncclCommInitRankFunc.
Add a parameter to set the location of the user configuration file.
* Add NCCL_CONF_FILE environment variable to set where the user's
configuration file resides.
Increase default IB timeout
* Increase IB timeout value from 18 to 20.
* Should help avoid fatal errors on large RoCE systems.
Add new check for nvidia peermem
* On linux kernels 6.6+, /sys/kernel/mm/memory_peers is no longer
present; check for /sys/module/nvidia_peermem/version instead.
Fix old performance regression when mixing small and large operations.
* Improves distribution of work on channels.
Fix crash when NUMA IDs are equal to -1.
* Can happen when a NIC is a virtual NIC, or when linux doesn't
know which NUMA node a device is attached to
* Issue NVIDIA/nccl-tests#233
Fix tree graph search when NCCL_CROSS_NIC is set to 1.
* Would force NCCL to use the balanced_tree pattern, thereby
disabling LL128 on platforms with 1 GPU+1 NIC per PCI switch.
* Would also try to use alternate rings even though it was not
needed.
Compiler tweaks and fixes
* PR #1177
* PR #1228
Fix stack smash
* PR #1325
Fixes for multi-node NVLink + IB operation
Coverity fixes and comments.
Add local user buffer registration for NVLink SHARP.
Add tuning plugin support.
Increase net API to v7 to allow for device-side packet reordering;
remove support for v4 plugins.
Add support for RoCE ECE.
Add support for C2C links.
Better detect SHM allocation failures to avoid crash with Bus Error.
Fix missing thread unlocks in bootstrap (Fixes#936).
Disable network flush by default on H100.
Move device code from src/collectives/device to src/device.
Sylvain Jeaugey