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[TOPI] GPU sort IR refactor to enable sort by keys #7157

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@masahi masahi commented Dec 23, 2020

This adds support for sort by key in topi cuda by refactoring the sort IR developed in #7099. By doing different initialization, the exact same sort IR can be reused for sort by key. This is because the original IR already supports argsort and argsort is just a special case of sort by key.

My motivation was to improve the default performance of scatter 1D using sorting based approach (see #7056), when thrust is not available. But it turns out that the sequential scatter kernel is much faster than doing TIR sort, so I dropped that goal for now (this also suggests that thrust's radix sort I used in #7056 is insanely fast). I am sending this PR anyway in the hope that someone would find sort by key useful. My branch that does scatter 1D using the TIR sorting kernel, along with a benchmark script, is available at https://github.com/masahi/tvm/tree/sort_ir_refactor_with_scatter

I also removed sort_nms_ir, since it is not used anymore and I think it would be much faster to sort entire rows using sort_ir anyway.

please review @mbrookhart @Laurawly @zhiics @tkonolige

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LGTM. Yes, thrust's radix sort is very good.

Can you share the benchmark numbers? I'm curious.

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mbrookhart commented Dec 23, 2020

I definitely didn't promise to be faster than thrust with #7099, just faster that what we had in TIR :)

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masahi commented Dec 23, 2020

Ok here it is. I think TIR numbers for 5000 and 10000 agree with the ones you had in #7099

size current (sequential) via thrust radix sort via TIR merge sort
5000 0.169332 0.168660 5.319211
10000 0.301014 0.172381 10.534689
25000 0.730493 0.169007 22.173880
50000 1.457996 0.315582 44.466231
100000 2.943622 0.395291 101.347441
500000 24.262521 1.254097 481.400628

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Yep, this matches the scaling I would expect with that algorithm. I'm kind of surprised that sequential scatter isn't worse than it is. I'm looking for ways to improve the mergesort, but I haven't found a good idea that we can implement in TIR yet, what I've seen requries a while loop.

@zhiics zhiics merged commit 9956b5b into apache:main Dec 23, 2020
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zhiics commented Dec 23, 2020

Thanks @masahi @mbrookhart @Laurawly

masahi added a commit to masahi/tvm that referenced this pull request Dec 24, 2020
* sort refactor initial import

* sort test working

* scatter 1d with positive indices working

* remove negatiev indices, using extern for now

* minor fix

* minor fix

* add sort by key test

* revert scatter change

* add document

* fix py format

Co-authored-by: masa <masa@pop-os.localdomain>
tkonolige pushed a commit to tkonolige/incubator-tvm that referenced this pull request Jan 11, 2021
* sort refactor initial import

* sort test working

* scatter 1d with positive indices working

* remove negatiev indices, using extern for now

* minor fix

* minor fix

* add sort by key test

* revert scatter change

* add document

* fix py format

Co-authored-by: masa <masa@pop-os.localdomain>
TusharKanekiDey pushed a commit to TusharKanekiDey/tvm that referenced this pull request Jan 20, 2021
* sort refactor initial import

* sort test working

* scatter 1d with positive indices working

* remove negatiev indices, using extern for now

* minor fix

* minor fix

* add sort by key test

* revert scatter change

* add document

* fix py format

Co-authored-by: masa <masa@pop-os.localdomain>
trevor-m pushed a commit to neo-ai/tvm that referenced this pull request Jan 21, 2021
* sort refactor initial import

* sort test working

* scatter 1d with positive indices working

* remove negatiev indices, using extern for now

* minor fix

* minor fix

* add sort by key test

* revert scatter change

* add document

* fix py format

Co-authored-by: masa <masa@pop-os.localdomain>
electriclilies pushed a commit to electriclilies/tvm that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2021
* sort refactor initial import

* sort test working

* scatter 1d with positive indices working

* remove negatiev indices, using extern for now

* minor fix

* minor fix

* add sort by key test

* revert scatter change

* add document

* fix py format

Co-authored-by: masa <masa@pop-os.localdomain>
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