"""Honest GPU timing. Import `bench` rather than hand-rolling a timer. The failure this exists to prevent: an eager reference in this repo measured 185 ms wall against 2.06 ms of GPU-busy time. Wall-clock around a python call measures dispatch, not the kernel. Rules enforced here: CUDA events (not time.time), warmup excluded, FRESH inputs per rep so a warm L2 does not masquerade as bandwidth, min-of-N (not mean, which drifts with clocks), and an optional GPU-busy cross-check so host-bound code is caught rather than reported as kernel time. """ import statistics import torch def bench(fn, make_args=None, args=None, reps=10, warmup=5, return_all=False): """Time `fn`. Pass make_args(i)->tuple for fresh inputs per rep, or a fixed `args` tuple.""" if make_args is None and args is None: raise ValueError("pass make_args or args") get = make_args if make_args is not None else (lambda i: args) for i in range(warmup): fn(*get(-1 - i)) torch.cuda.synchronize() times = [] for i in range(reps): a = get(i) torch.cuda.synchronize() s = torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True) e = torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True) s.record() out = fn(*a) e.record() torch.cuda.synchronize() times.append(s.elapsed_time(e) / 1e3) del a, out return (min(times), times) if return_all else min(times) def gpu_busy(fn, args, reps=3): """Sum of kernel time from the profiler. If this is far below `bench`, you are HOST-bound and the kernel is not your problem yet -- go look at nsys, not ncu.""" from torch.profiler import profile, ProfilerActivity for _ in range(3): fn(*args) torch.cuda.synchronize() with profile(activities=[ProfilerActivity.CUDA]) as p: for _ in range(reps): fn(*args) torch.cuda.synchronize() ks = [k for k in p.key_averages() if k.self_device_time_total > 0] return sum(k.self_device_time_total for k in ks) / reps / 1e6, sum(k.count for k in ks) / reps def report(fn, make_args=None, args=None, work=None, unit="TFLOP/s", **kw): """Time, cross-check against GPU-busy, and convert to an achieved metric.""" wall = bench(fn, make_args=make_args, args=args, **kw) a = (make_args(0) if make_args else args) busy, nk = gpu_busy(fn, a) print(f"wall {wall*1e6:9.1f} us gpu-busy {busy*1e6:9.1f} us kernels/call {nk:.0f}") if busy > 0 and wall / busy > 1.5: print(f" !! wall is {wall/busy:.1f}x gpu-busy -- HOST-BOUND. Profile with nsys, not ncu.") if work: scale = 1e12 if unit == "TFLOP/s" else 2 ** 30 print(f" achieved {work/wall/scale:.4g} {unit}") return wall