Profiler improvements
* Add events for CUDA kernel start and end.
* Allow network plugins to generate profiling events
* Enable profiling on a per-operation basis, rather than per-communicator.
* Add support for graph capturing.
Add implicit launch order
* Allow to prevent deadlocks when using multiple NCCL communicators per
device by implicitly ordering NCCL operations using the host program
order. Disabled by default, set NCCL_LAUNCH_ORDER_IMPLICIT=1 to enable.
* Add a complementary mechanism to detect host threads racing to launch
to the same device. Enabled by default, set NCCL_LAUNCH_RACE_FATAL=0 to
disable.
Optimize the PAT algorithm
* Separate the computation and execution of PAT steps on different warps,
allowing to run up to 16 PAT steps in parallel to significantly
accelerate PAT and reduce its linear part.
Add support for setting QoS per communicator
* Add a new trafficClass field to the communicator configuration, to
allow the application to select a particular traffic class for a
given communicator. The meaning of the traffic class is
network-specific and should be set in accordance with the network
configuration.
* For the IB/RoCE plugin, existing config variables such as NCCL_IB_SL
and NCCL_IB_TC take precedence.
Allow to enable GPU Direct RDMA specifically on C2C platforms
* Disabled by default, set NCCL_NET_GDR_C2C=1 to enable.
Do not disable user buffer registration unless PXN is really used
* Only disable UB when a communicator has more than one rank per
node on any node.
RAS subsystem improvements
* Report operation counts separately for each collective operation type.
* Provide details about missing communicator ranks and reliably
distinguish ranks that are no longer a given communicator's members
(now reported as NOCOMM) from those that failed to respond.
Add support for timestamps to NCCL diagnostic messages
* On by default for WARN messages; NCCL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMP_LEVELS can be
used to enable them for other debug levels as well.
* The format can be changed using the NCCL_DEBUG_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT config
variable.
Reduce the memory usage with NVLink SHARP (NVLS)
* Potentially save hundreds of MBs of device memory, considering the
multicast buffer size granularity separately from the address alignment.
Update performance tuning for recent Intel CPUs
* Improve algorithm/protocol selection on recent CPUs such as Emerald
Rapids and Sapphire Rapids.
Improve channel scheduling when mixing LL and Simple operations.
* Make LL operations account for 4x more traffic to ensure LL and simple
operations complete at the same time.
Refactor the plugin code
* Clean up and harmonize the support code across the network, tuner,
and profiler plugins.
Add support for comment lines (starting with #) in the nccl.conf file
* Issue #1540.
Make user buffer registration problems print an INFO instead of a WARN.
Drop support for network plugin interface version 5.
Fix a race condition with split-shared communicators
* NCCL could hang during connection setup if multiple communicators
were grouped together that share resources.
Fix a performance regression when using NCCL_CROSS_NIC=1
* NCCL would unnecessarily alternate rings, breaking the GPU-NIC
associations.
Make GID index detection code more resilient
* Dynamic GID detection code was giving up too soon if the
detected index was not available (e.g., wasn't mapped to the
container's sysfs).
* Issues #1538, #1573.
Fix a race condition with non-blocking operation
* Fix issue when creating a non-blocking communicator after a non-
blocking collective operation on another communicator.
Fix shared memory usage on recent Blackwell GPUs.
* Issues NVIDIA/nccl-tests#287, NVIDIA/nccl-tests#291, #1637.
Fix an error with NIC fusion and IB SHARP when recreating communicators
* Disable the unloading of network plugins
Make the auto-merge failures in the NIC fusion non-fatal
* This could happen when trying to merge IB and RoCE devices.
Fixes to ncclCommAbort
* Fix hangs due to the progress thread spinning indefinitely on the
network progress.
* Reduce the abort time by up to two orders of magnitude.
Fix a crash when libnccl.so was dynamically unloaded
* The RAS subsystem was missing a clean-up handler.
Fix a hang if the network plugin's test() call returns an error.
Fix a hang on heterogeneous architectures
* Ensure we harmonize the tuning to avoid different tuning choices,
causing a hang.
Fix double-free on failed ncclCommInitRank and ncclCommFinalize.
Fix a potential list traversal bug during a group launch of multiple
communicators
* Issue #1599.
Unify the handling of NCCL configuration variables
* Under rare circumstances, some variables specified in the config file
could be ignored.
Network user buffer support for collectives
* Leverage user buffer registration to achieve zero-copy
inter-node communications for Ring, NVLS and Collnet
Add RAS subsystem
* Create a RAS thread keeping track of all NCCL communicators.
* Add a ncclras tool contacting the RAS thread and getting a
report.
Add fp8 support
* Add support for e5m2 and e4m3 8-bit floating point operations.
* Use Tree/PAT algorithms when possible for better numerical
stability.
Add NIC fusion
* Add a NET API to ask the network plugin to fuse a set of
interfaces together.
* Fuse multiple NICs under the same PCI switch as a single,
larger NIC.
Socket connection failure retry
* Retry in case of socket connection failure (unreachable host)
* Avoid "Software caused connection abort" errors on retries
QP connection failure retry
* Retry in case of IB QP connection failure during ibv_modify_qp.
NET API improvements
* Allow plugins to force a flush in case data and completion
ordering is not guaranteed.
* Indicate when completion is not needed (e.g. for the LL128
protocol), allowing plugins to skip generating a completion.
* Allow for full offload of allgather operations when using one
GPU per node.
NCCL_ALGO/NCCL_PROTO strict enforcement
* Extend NCCL_ALGO/NCCL_PROTO syntax to be able to specify
ALGO/PROTO filters for each collective operation.
* Strictly enforce the ALGO/PROTO filters, no longer fall back
on the ring algorithm when the filtering leaves no option and
error out instead.
Enable CUMEM host allocations
* Use cumem functions for host memory allocation by default.
Improved profiler plugin API
* Avoid dependencies with NCCL includes.
* Add information on whether the buffer is registered or not
Adjust PAT tuning
* Improve transition between PAT and ring at scale.
Fix hangs when running with different CPU architectures
* Detect when we use a mix of GPU architectures
* Ensure Algo/Proto decisions are made based on that unified
state.
Fix FD leak in UDS
* Fix a leak when mapping buffers intra-node with cumem IPCs.
Fix crash when mixing buffer registration and graph buffer registration.
* Separate local and graph registration to avoid crashes when we free
buffers.
Fix user buffer registration with dmabuf
* Make ncclSend/ncclRecv communication with buffer registration functional
on network plugins relying on dmabuf for buffer registration.
Fix crash in IB code caused by uninitialized fields.
Fix non-blocking ncclSend/ncclRecv
* Fix case where ncclSend/ncclRecv would return ncclSuccess in non-blocking
mode even though the operation was not enqueued onto the stream.
* Issue #1495
Various compiler tweaks and fixes
* PR #758
Fix typo in ncclTopoPrintGraph
* Issue #1468
Add support for IB SHARP 1PPN operation with user buffers.
Improve support for MNNVL, add NVLS support and multi-clique support.
* Detect the NVLS clique through NVML
* Exchange XML between peers in the same NVLS clique and fuse XMLs
before creating the topology graph.
* Rework bootstrap allgather algorithms to allow for large allgather
operations intra-node (XML exchange).
Net/IB: add support for dynamic GID detection.
* Automatically select RoCEv2/IPv4 interface by default. Allow to
select IPv6 or even the network/mask.
Reduce NVLS memory usage.
* Add stepSize as property of a connection to allow for different
sizes on different peers; set it to 128K for NVLink SHARP.
Improve tuner loading
* Look for more paths, be more consistent with the network device
plugin.
* Also search for tuner support inside the net plugin.
Improve tuner API
* Add context to support multi-device per process.
Add magic number around comm object to detect comm corruption.
* Add some basic check around communicators so that we can report a
problem when a communicator gets corrupted or a wrong comm pointer
is passed to NCCL.
Fix net/IB error path. Github PR #1164
Fix collnet rail mapping with split comm.
Fix packet reordering issue causing bootstrap mismatch
* Use a different tag in ncclTransportP2pSetup for the connectInfo
exchange and the following barrier.
Fix hang when crossNic is inconsistent between ranks.
Fix minCompCap/maxCompCap computation. Github issue #1184
Add new NVLS algorithm for allreduce using NVLink SHARP (intra-node only).
Add new config options: cgaClusterSize, minCTAs, maxCTAs, netName.
Enable LL128 when we use PXN to close rings.
NVTX3 includes update.
Fix crash when one CollNet (SHARP) rail fails to initialize.
Add support for CUDA 12.0, drop Kepler (sm_35).
Support for H100 features.
Make socket code more robust and protected. Solves #555.
Improve performance on large CUDA graphs, reducing dependencies.
Reduce inter-socket bandwidth on AMD CPUs to favor better paths.
Various fixes to ncclCommAbort.
Make service thread polling resistant to EINTR.
Compile with profiling API by default.
Extend NVTX instrumentation with call arguments.
Fix bug with CollNet
Fix bug with zero-bytes send/recv operations
Fix NCCL_PARAM implementation to avoid taking a lock on every call
Fix bug when setting NCCL_IB_QPS_PER_CONNECTION to more than one.
Improve error reporting for network errors.
Add network communication through another GPU connected with NVLink
(PXN).
Add aggregation of messages coming from different local GPUs through
PXN and going to the same destination.
Add new v5 plugin API with grouped receives and tags.
Add compat for v4 plugins.
Add naming of NCCL threads to help debugging.
Fix NVLink detection and avoid data corruption when some NVLinks are
down.
Add support for Relaxed Ordering for IB.
Add profiling and timing infrastructure.
Add support for bfloat16.
Add ncclAvg reduction operation.
Improve performance for aggregated operations.
Improve performance for tree.
Improve network error reporting.
Add NCCL_NET parameter to force a specific network.
Add NCCL_IB_QPS_PER_CONNECTION parameter to split IB traffic onto multiple queue pairs.
Fix topology detection error in WSL2.
Fix proxy memory elements affinity (improve alltoall performance).
Fix graph search on cubemesh topologies.
Fix hang in cubemesh during NVB connections.
Fix hang in corner cases of alltoallv using point to point send/recv.
Harmonize error messages.
Fix missing NVTX section in the license.
Update README.
Optimization for Tree allreduce on A100.
Improve aggregation performance.
Use shared buffers for inter-node send/recv.
Add NVTX profiling hooks.
Accelerate alltoall connections by merging communication for all
channels.
Add support for one hop communication through NVLink, for faster
send/recv communication on cubemesh topologies like DGX-1.
Improve alltoall scheduling to better balance intra/inter node
communication.
Increase send/recv parallelism by 8x, each warp sending or
receiving to a different peer.
Net: move to v4.
Net: make flush operation asynchronous to accelerate alltoall.
Net: define maximum number of requests.
Fix hang when using LL128 protocol after 2^31 steps.
Fix#379 : topology injection failing when using less GPUs than
described in the XML.
Fix#394 : protocol mismatch causing hangs or crashes when using
one GPU per node.
Add support for network collectives.
Add support for XML topology dump/injection.
Add text values for GDR and P2P Levels, including "NVL".
Add speed detection for PCI, Infiniband and Ethernet cards.
Add CPU detection for ARM and AMD CPUs.
Add support for adaptive routing on Infiniband.
Change NET plugin API to v3 : merge PCI path and GPU pointer
capability into a single structure and add other properties.
Add LL128 Protocol.
Rewrite the topology detection and tree/ring creation (#179). Improve
tree performance by sending/receiving from different GPUs. Add
model-based tuning to switch between the different algorithms and
protocols.
Rework P2P/SHM detection in containers (#155, #248).
Detect duplicated devices and return an error (#231).
Add tuning for GCP
Fixes: #244
SO_RESUEPORT was introduced in Linux 3.9 and later.
This change allows NCCL to compile against older releases.
The functionality is only required if the user is specifying
a NCCL bootstrap address via an environment variable.
Fix#209: improve socket transport performance
Split transfers over multiple sockets
Launch multiple threads to drive sockets
Detect AWS NICs and set nsockets/nthreads accordingly
Added detection of IBM/Power NVLink bridge device.
Add NUMA support to PCI distance calculations.
Added NCCL_IGNORE_CPU_AFFINITY env var.
Fix memory leaks; GithubIssue#180
Compiler warning fix; GithubIssue#178
Replace non-standard variable length arrays. GithubIssue#171
Fix Tree+Shared Memory crash. GithubPR#185
Fix LL cleanup hang during long running DL jobs.
Fix NCCL_RINGS environment variable handling.
Added extra checks to catch repeat calls to ncclCommDestroy() GithubIssue#191
Improve bootstrap socket connection reliability at scale.
Fix hostname hashing issue. GithubIssue#187
Code cleanup to rename all non device files from *.cu to *.cc
Add tree algorithms for allreduce to improve performance at scale.
Add ncclCommAbort() and ncclCommGetAsyncError() to properly handle
network errors and be permit recover.
Detect initial CPU affinity and no longer escape it.
SYSCHECKVAL was not retrying when a retry was needed. Since not all
calls are inside a loop, that means we could silently miss an
EINTR/EAGAIN return code.
Also rework the socket connection code and improve error reporting.
Dynamically load external network from libnccl-net.so.
Add init function in networks.
Move PCI scoring to net.cu, only ask transport to provide a path.
Simplify CUDA PCI path detection.
Add dummy external network
Improved LL tuning for multi-node jobs.
Improved bootstrap for large job scaling.
Fixed a hang during bootstrap due to socket reuse.
Added operation name to the COLL INFO logging.
Add support for inter-node communication using sockets and InfiniBand/RoCE.
Improve latency.
Add support for aggregation.
Improve LL/regular tuning.
Remove tests as those are now at github.com/nvidia/nccl-tests .
Kamil Iskra
Sylvain Jeaugey
Ke Wen
David Addison
Hirochika Asai