Description
🐛 Describe the bug
The device_id parameter of distributed.init_process_group will cause each process to occupy video memory on the first accessible GPU.
For example, I set the environment variable to "CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES": "0,1" . After init_process_group is executed, rank 1 will also occupy some video memory on GPU 0. This is obviously not what I expected.
Before, I used torch.cuda.set_device(local_rank) to set the GPU and never used the device_id parameter. But when I updated pytorch, pytorch gave me this warning' [rank0]:[W313 18:22:43.453826616 ProcessGroupNCCL.cpp:4561] [PG ID 0 PG GUID 0 Rank 0] using GPU 0 to perform barrier as devices used by this process are currently unknown. This can potentially cause a hang if this rank to GPU mapping is incorrect. Specify device_ids in barrier() to force use of a particular device, or call init_process_group() with a device_id.'
The code is as follows：
import os
import torch
import torch.multiprocessing as mp
from torch import distributed
def proc_main(local_rank):
torch.cuda.set_device(local_rank)
backend = 'nccl' if distributed.is_nccl_available() else 'gloo'
print(f'backend is {backend}')
dev = torch.device('cuda', local_rank)
distributed.init_process_group(
backend=backend,
init_method='env://',
world_size=torch.cuda.device_count(),
rank=local_rank,
device_id=dev
)
distributed.barrier()
distributed.destroy_process_group()
def main():
if distributed.is_available():
os.environ['MASTER_ADDR'] = '127.0.0.1'
os.environ['MASTER_PORT'] = '9987'
mp.spawn(proc_main, nprocs=torch.cuda.device_count())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Versions
PyTorch version: 2.6.0+cu124
Is debug build: False
CUDA used to build PyTorch: 12.4
ROCM used to build PyTorch: N/A
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (x86_64)
GCC version: (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
Clang version: Could not collect
CMake version: Could not collect
Libc version: glibc-2.35
Python version: 3.12.9 | packaged by Anaconda, Inc. | (main, Feb 6 2025, 18:56:27) [GCC 11.2.0] (64-bit runtime)
Python platform: Linux-5.15.0-134-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
Is CUDA available: True
CUDA runtime version: Could not collect
CUDA_MODULE_LOADING set to: LAZY
GPU models and configuration:
GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
GPU 3: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Nvidia driver version: 550.120
cuDNN version: Could not collect
HIP runtime version: N/A
MIOpen runtime version: N/A
Is XNNPACK available: True
CPU:
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 16
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6244 CPU @ 3.60GHz
CPU family: 6
Model: 85
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 8
Socket(s): 2
Stepping: 7
CPU max MHz: 4400.0000
CPU min MHz: 1200.0000
BogoMIPS: 7200.00
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l3 cdp_l3 invpcid_single intel_ppin ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm mpx rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb intel_pt avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req pku ospke avx512_vnni md_clear flush_l1d arch_capabilities
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 512 KiB (16 instances)
L1i cache: 512 KiB (16 instances)
L2 cache: 16 MiB (16 instances)
L3 cache: 49.5 MiB (2 instances)
NUMA node(s): 2
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14
NUMA node1 CPU(s): 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15
Vulnerability Gather data sampling: Mitigation; Microcode
Vulnerability Itlb multihit: KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled
Vulnerability L1tf: Not affected
Vulnerability Mds: Not affected
Vulnerability Meltdown: Not affected
Vulnerability Mmio stale data: Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Vulnerability Reg file data sampling: Not affected
Vulnerability Retbleed: Mitigation; Enhanced IBRS
Vulnerability Spec rstack overflow: Not affected
Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Vulnerability Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2: Mitigation; Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS SW sequence; BHI SW loop, KVM SW loop
Vulnerability Srbds: Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort: Mitigation; TSX disabled
Versions of relevant libraries:
[pip3] numpy==2.2.3
[pip3] nvidia-cublas-cu12==12.4.5.8
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12==12.4.127
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12==12.4.127
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12==12.4.127
[pip3] nvidia-cudnn-cu12==9.1.0.70
[pip3] nvidia-cufft-cu12==11.2.1.3
[pip3] nvidia-curand-cu12==10.3.5.147
[pip3] nvidia-cusolver-cu12==11.6.1.9
[pip3] nvidia-cusparse-cu12==12.3.1.170
[pip3] nvidia-cusparselt-cu12==0.6.2
[pip3] nvidia-nccl-cu12==2.21.5
[pip3] nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12==12.4.127
[pip3] nvidia-nvtx-cu12==12.4.127
[pip3] torch==2.6.0
[pip3] torchaudio==2.6.0
[pip3] torchvision==0.21.0
[pip3] triton==3.2.0
[conda] numpy 2.2.3 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-cublas-cu12 12.4.5.8 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12 12.4.127 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12 12.4.127 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12 12.4.127 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-cudnn-cu12 9.1.0.70 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-cufft-cu12 11.2.1.3 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-curand-cu12 10.3.5.147 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-cusolver-cu12 11.6.1.9 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-cusparse-cu12 12.3.1.170 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-cusparselt-cu12 0.6.2 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-nccl-cu12 2.21.5 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12 12.4.127 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] nvidia-nvtx-cu12 12.4.127 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] torch 2.6.0 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] torchaudio 2.6.0 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] torchvision 0.21.0 pypi_0 pypi
[conda] triton 3.2.0 pypi_0 pypi
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