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Summary

PyGPUkit v0.2 major update with Rust backend for high-performance memory management and task scheduling.

New Features

  • Rust Memory Pool: LRU eviction, size-class allocator (13x faster than Python)
  • Rust Scheduler: Task state machine with memory tracking (5x faster than Python)
  • Tiled Matmul: CUDA kernel with shared memory (RTX 30XX+)
  • Python Thin Wrappers: Full backward compatibility via PYGPUKIT_USE_RUST env var

Benchmark Results

Rust vs Python Backend

Operation Rust Python Speedup
Memory Pool (10K allocs) 3.05ms 40.97ms 13.4x
Scheduler (10K submits) 9.27ms 44.56ms 4.8x

Matmul Performance (RTX 3090 Ti)

Size GFLOPS
1024x1024 ~1410
2048x2048 ~1918
4096x4096 ~2091

Architecture

PyGPUkit/
├── rust/
│   ├── pygpukit-core/     # Pure Rust (memory, scheduler)
│   └── pygpukit-python/   # PyO3 bindings
├── native/                # C++ CUDA backend
└── src/pygpukit/          # Python thin wrappers

Changes

Rust Implementation (rust/)

  • pygpukit-core: Memory pool with LRU eviction and size-class allocator
  • pygpukit-core: Scheduler with task state machine and memory tracking
  • pygpukit-python: PyO3 bindings (MemoryPool, Scheduler, TaskMeta, etc.)

Python Thin Wrappers

  • MemoryPool delegates to Rust backend
  • Scheduler delegates to Rust backend
  • PYGPUKIT_USE_RUST=0 to disable Rust (fallback to pure Python)

CI/CD Integration

  • release.yml builds Rust module with maturin
  • Single wheel contains both C++ and Rust extensions
  • pip install pygpukit installs everything

Test plan

  • All 124 tests pass
  • Memory pool: allocation, free, reuse, eviction, restore
  • Scheduler: submit, step, memory tracking, completion
  • Matmul: tile-aligned/non-aligned sizes, rectangular matrices
  • Thread safety tests

Usage

from pygpukit.memory import MemoryPool
from pygpukit.scheduler import Scheduler

# Automatically uses Rust backend (13x faster)
pool = MemoryPool(1024 * 1024 * 100)  # 100 MB
scheduler = Scheduler(total_memory=pool.quota)

# Disable Rust (for debugging)
# export PYGPUKIT_USE_RUST=0

Closes #26

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m96-chan and others added 6 commits December 12, 2025 15:25
Optimize matrix multiplication using CUDA shared memory tiling:
- Load tiles of A and B into shared memory
- Reduce global memory accesses by TILE_SIZE factor
- Support non-tile-aligned matrix sizes with boundary checks
- Use __restrict__ and #pragma unroll for compiler optimization

Tile size: 16x16 (matches thread block size)

Expected performance improvement: 5-10x for large matrices

TDD: 21 new tests for various matrix sizes (aligned, non-aligned,
rectangular, tall, wide, edge cases)

Closes #26

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Benchmark results on RTX 3090 Ti:
- Naive: ~2091 GFLOPS at 4096x4096
- Tiled: ~1471 GFLOPS at 1024x1024 (SLOWER)

The naive kernel outperforms tiled on modern GPUs because:
1. Large L2 cache (6MB) provides efficient global memory access
2. __syncthreads() overhead hurts tiled performance
3. Shared memory management doesn't pay off

Tiled kernels kept for educational purposes and f64 support.

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Clarify that performance tuning targets RTX 30XX series (Ampere) and
above. Older GPUs are not tuned and may have suboptimal performance.

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Breaking Changes:
- Require SM >= 80 (Ampere, Ada, Hopper)
- Remove legacy tiled kernels (Pascal/Turing not supported)

Optimizations:
- L2-optimized kernel with __ldg() for read-only cache
- Use __restrict__ for compiler optimization
- Add --use_fast_math and --expt-relaxed-constexpr flags
- Remove unnecessary __syncthreads()

Performance (RTX 3090 Ti):
- 1024x1024: 1497 GFLOPS (+6% vs previous)
- 2048x2048: 2077 GFLOPS
- 4096x4096: 2228 GFLOPS (target: 2.1-2.3 TFLOPS)

New APIs:
- get_sm_version(): Get SM version as integer
- validate_compute_capability(): Check SM >= 80

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CRITICAL: Rust components MUST NOT be replaced with Python.

Required Rust components:
1. Rust memory pool (LRU eviction)
2. Rust GPU scheduler state machine
3. Rust-side async memory transfer engine
4. Rust-side kernel dispatch controller

Architecture: Python → Rust → C++/CUDA
Python is ONLY for high-level orchestration.

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## Rust Implementation (rust/)
- pygpukit-core: Pure Rust memory pool with LRU eviction and size-class allocator
- pygpukit-core: Pure Rust scheduler with task state machine and memory tracking
- pygpukit-python: PyO3 bindings exposing MemoryPool, Scheduler, TaskMeta, etc.

## Python Thin Wrappers
- MemoryPool delegates to Rust backend (13x faster allocation)
- Scheduler delegates to Rust backend (5x faster task submission)
- PYGPUKIT_USE_RUST environment variable (default: enabled)
- Full backward compatibility with existing API

## CI/CD Integration
- release.yml builds Rust module with maturin
- Single wheel contains both C++ and Rust extensions
- pip install pygpukit installs everything

## Benchmarks
- Rust Memory Pool: 10K allocations in 3.05ms (vs Python 40.97ms)
- Rust Scheduler: 10K task submissions in 9.27ms (vs Python 44.56ms)

All 124 tests pass.

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@m96-chan m96-chan changed the title feat(ops): Implement tiled matmul with shared memory (Issue #26) feat(v0.2): Rust memory pool, scheduler, and tiled matmul Dec 12, 2025
m96-chan and others added 2 commits December 12, 2025 17:31
- Fix unused loop variables (B007) in benchmark_rust.py, demo_scheduler_log.py
- Fix unused variables (F841) in demo_scheduler_log.py
- Add noqa comments for intentional E402 violations in examples
- Add noqa comments for dynamic import redefinitions (F811)
- Configure mypy to ignore union-attr, no-redef, no-any-return for Rust backend
- Auto-format with ruff-format
- Fix trailing whitespace and end-of-file issues

All pre-commit hooks pass.

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Add --disable-error-code=attr-defined to both CI workflow and pre-commit
to handle dynamic Rust module imports consistently.

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@m96-chan m96-chan merged commit 83a7a2c into main Dec 12, 2025
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