Use dlopen to load nccl/rccl Apis from shared library to
enable Allgather, Allreduce, Broadcast, ReduceScatter fallback to nccl/rccl operations.
Add three related environment variables
-x MSCCLPP_ENABLE_NCCL_FALLBACK=TRUE
-x MSCCLPP_NCCL_LIB_PATH=/path/libnccl.so/librccl.so
-x MSCCLPP_FORCE_NCCL_FALLBACK_OPERATION="allreduce,allgather,broadcast,reducescatter" or "all"
By default, if MSCCLPP_FORCE_NCCL_FALLBACK_OPERATION is not specified, all these operations will be fallback to nccl/rccl apis.
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Co-authored-by: Binyang Li <binyli@microsoft.com>
Enhancements to all-gather operation, a temporary solution to fix the
memory overhead when integrating msccl++ with pytorch.
This solution will not register input/output buffer to msccl++, so the
temp output buffer for allgather could be reused by torch automatically.
* Introduced a new `allgather8` kernel function in
`apps/nccl/src/allgather.hpp` to handle larger data sizes more
efficiently. This includes double buffering to hide synchronization
overhead and support for both in-place and out-of-place operations.
* Modified the `allgather` function to decide between `allgather6` and
`allgather8` based on data size and platform, improving performance for
large data sizes.
Configuration and environment improvements:
* Added a new environment variable `MSCCLPP_DISABLE_CHANNEL_CACHE` to
control whether the channel cache is disabled, enhancing
configurability. This variable is now part of the `Env` class and is
logged during environment initialization.
* Removed the redundant global variable `mscclppDisableChannelCache`
from `src/debug.cc` and updated its usage to refer to the new
environment variable.
