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Answer steal requests while a waiting thread runs its children inline - #7803
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With run_as_child, a thread waiting on futures runs the pending children inline without returning to the worker's scheduling loop, so the work-requesting schedulers didn't answer the other workers' steal requests until all children were done. Add scheduler_base::handle_steal_requests (a no-op by default) and call it from threads::detail::execute_thread before running a child inline. The work-requesting scheduler answers the pending steal requests there, and clears runs_as_child on the pending tasks it hands to a thief, so the waiting thread doesn't take them back and run them inline. Fixes TheHPXProject#7789 Signed-off-by: Rohan Pattanayak <[email protected]>
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main scheduler change: answering steal requests while a waiting thread runs children inline. Description check The description explains the bug, implementation, affected scheduler paths, race handling, and regression test. It is directly related to the changeset. Linked Issues check The PR satisfies the coding requirements in directly linked issue #7789.execute_threadcalls the scheduler hook before inline child execution.scheduler_baseprovides a no-op default. `local_work…Out of Scope Changes check The scheduler hook, thread_datastate handling, test registration, regression test, and updates to the existing work-requesting tests support issue#7789. The reviewed changes show no unrelated prod…Full details: Linked Issues check
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#7789.execute_threadcalls the scheduler hook before inline child execution.scheduler_baseprovides a no-op default.local_workrequesting_schedulerprocesses or forwards pending steal requests according toenable_stealing. The stolen-task path clearsruns_as_child, andexecute_threadrechecks the flag after claiming the task. Theworkrequesting_run_as_childtest covers 2,000 tasks with both work-requesting schedulers and checks execution on another worker.
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thread_datastate handling, test registration, regression test, and updates to the existing work-requesting tests support issue#7789. The reviewed changes show no unrelated product behavior or unrelated test changes.
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@libs/core/schedulers/include/hpx/schedulers/local_workrequesting_scheduler.hpp:
- Around line 951-954: Synchronize the inline-claim path around the
pending-state check and runs-as-child flag clearing so the steal handoff and
inline claim share one atomic ownership decision. Update the logic surrounding
thread_data::invoke_directly(), execute_thread(), and reset_runs_as_child() to
prevent another worker from passing its runs_as_child() check before the
claiming worker clears the flag, while preserving the existing pending-thread
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- Line 54: Update the task submission in the test around busy_task so it
preserves the executor’s schedule hint and guarantees the run exercises
stealing; use the appropriate hint-preserving submission path instead of
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Make task placement exercise stealing on this branch.
On the current base, post() drops this executor's schedule hint. The tasks can therefore start on workers other than worker 0 without being stolen. HPX_TEST(num_stolen > 0) can pass even if the new steal-request hook does nothing. Use a task-submission path that preserves the hint, or defer this regression test until #7751 supplies that contract. (github.com)
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Update the task submission in the test around busy_task so it preserves the
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this was made to go after 7751 lands, so ig it should stay the same , wdys @hkaiser ???????
A victim on another worker could reset runs_as_child after the waiting thread had already passed its checks in execute_thread, so invoke_directly asserted. Switch the thread to active while resetting the flag, the same switch execute_thread uses to claim it, so only one of the two can win. Signed-off-by: Rohan Pattanayak <[email protected]>
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Thanks, this looks good to me. Answering the steal requests from execute_thread is safe, as the worker's scheduling loop isn't running while the waiting thread runs its children, and stop_running_as_child closes the race CodeRabbit pointed out: it and the claim in execute_thread switch the same tagged state, so only one of them can win. If the victim clears the flag first, the waiting thread's switch fails on the changed tag, or it finds runs_as_child() false and leaves the task alone without rescheduling it; if the waiting thread wins, the victim sends a task that is no longer pending, which the thief drops as before.
I ran the new test locally (Windows, MSVC, Release, 4 workers): with the change, 1200 to 1600 of the 2000 tasks ran on other workers in each of 20 runs (both schedulers), and with the handle_steal_requests call in execute_thread disabled, none did and the test failed every time. So it tests what it should.
Two things:
- Now that #7751 is in, please turn run-as-child back on in
workrequesting_stealandworkrequesting_suspend_resumein this PR, i.e. remove theruns_as_child_mode(thread_execution_hint::none)lines and the comments pointing to #7789. With this changeworkrequesting_stealpassed 10 of 10 runs here with run-as-child set explicitly. - The test counts every task that didn't run on worker 0 as stolen, assuming
hpx_mainruns there.run_helperis created with a hint for worker 0, but with a work-requesting scheduler another worker can steal it before it starts, and then the childrenhpx_mainruns inline would count as stolen, so the test would pass without the fix. It did run on worker 0 in all my runs, so this is more about robustness: usinghpx::get_worker_thread_num()at the start ofhpx_mainfor both the hint and the comparison inbusy_taskwould avoid the assumption (the same applies toworkrequesting_steal).
Now that a worker running children inline answers steal requests, the work-requesting tests don't need to disable run-as-child anymore. Compare against the worker hpx_main runs on instead of assuming worker 0, as another worker may steal hpx_main before it starts. Include only the generated module headers in the new test, and don't return an unused value from stop_running_as_child. Signed-off-by: Rohan Pattanayak <[email protected]>
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thanks for running it @hkaiser ! turned run-as-child back on in workrequesting_steal and workrequesting_suspend_resume, and both workrequesting_run_as_child and workrequesting_steal now use the worker hpx_main starts on for the hint and the check, instead of assuming worker 0. |
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the remaining jenkins failures are partitioned_vector_merge_regressions and counting_semaphore_cpp20, which fail on master and other PRs too |
Fixes #7789
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scheduler_base::handle_steal_requests(num_thread), a no-op by default, and call it fromthreads::detail::execute_threadbefore a child is run inline. All the run-as-child paths (wait,wait_until,get_result_void,execute_deferred) go through there.local_workrequesting_scheduleroverrides it and answers the worker's pending steal requests, the same wayget_next_threaddoes (it honorsenable_stealing, and only declines or forwards requests otherwise). This is safe because the worker's scheduling loop isn't running while the waiting thread runs on it.runs_as_childflag (newthread_data::stop_running_as_child(), which switches the thread to active while it resets the flag, so it can't race withexecute_threadclaiming the same thread), so the waiting thread doesn't take them back and run them inline. It suspends on those futures instead, and the thief runs them. Tasks that already ran inline aren't pending anymore and are left alone.workrequesting_run_as_childtest: 2000 run-as-child tasks placed on worker 0,wait_allon worker 0, and a check that some of them ran on other workers, with bothlocal-workrequesting-fifoandlocal-workrequesting-mc.Any background context you want to provide?
This is approach 1 from the issue. Without clearing
runs_as_child, answering the requests alone doesn't help much: the stolen tasks are the next ones in the queue, so the parent waits on them right away and runs them inline before the thief gets to them.If a worker clears the flag while another worker is about to run the same child inline, the existing re-check in
execute_thread(after switching the child to active) handles it, the same as when a child is started normally in the meantime.On master,
post()doesn't pass the schedule hint on for run-as-child tasks, so the tasks in the new test don't all land on worker 0, and the test only really exercises this once #7751 is in. After both are merged, run-as-child can be turned back on inworkrequesting_stealandworkrequesting_suspend_resume(see the comments added for #7789 in #7751).Checklist
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