(**************************************************************************) (* ParMap: a simple library to perform Map computations on a multi-core *) (* *) (* Author(s): Marco Danelutto, Roberto Di Cosmo *) (* *) (* This library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify *) (* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as *) (* published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the *) (* License, or (at your option) any later version. A special linking *) (* exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License applies to this *) (* library, see the LICENSE file for more information. *) (**************************************************************************) open ExtLib (* OS related constants *) (* a reasonable size for mmapping a file containing even huge result data *) let huge_size = if Sys.word_size = 64 then 1 lsl 32 else 1 lsl 26;; (* sequence type, subsuming lists and arrays *) type 'a sequence = L of 'a list | A of 'a array;; let debug_enabled = ref false;; let log_dir = ref (Printf.sprintf "/tmp/.parmap.%d" (Unix.getpid ())) let debug fmt = Printf.kprintf ( if !debug_enabled then begin (fun s -> Format.eprintf "[Parmap]: %s@." s) end else ignore ) fmt let info fmt = Printf.kprintf (fun s -> Format.eprintf "[Parmap]: %s@." s) fmt (* utils *) (* would be [? a | a <- startv--endv] using list comprehension from Batteries *) let ext_intv startv endv = let s,e = (min startv endv),(max startv endv) in let rec aux acc = function n -> if n=s then n::acc else aux (n::acc) (n-1) in aux [] e ;; (* freopen emulation, from Xavier's suggestion on OCaml mailing list *) let reopen_out outchan fname = flush outchan; if not(Sys.file_exists !log_dir) then Unix.mkdir !log_dir 0o777 ; let filename = Filename.concat !log_dir fname in let fd1 = Unix.descr_of_out_channel outchan in let fd2 = Unix.openfile filename [Unix.O_WRONLY; Unix.O_CREAT; Unix.O_TRUNC] 0o666 in Unix.dup2 fd2 fd1; Unix.close fd2 (* unmarshal from a mmap seen as a bigarray *) let unmarshal fd = let a = Bigarray.Array1.map_file fd Bigarray.char Bigarray.c_layout true (-1) in let res = Bytearray.unmarshal a 0 in Unix.close fd; res (* marshal to a mmap seen as a bigarray *) (* System dependent notes: - on Linux kernels, we might allocate a mmapped memory area of huge_size and marshal into it directly let ba = Bigarray.Array1.map_file fd Bigarray.char Bigarray.c_layout true huge_size in ignore(Bytearray.marshal_to_buffer ba 0 v [Marshal.Closures]); Unix.close fd - to be compatible with other systems, notably Mac OS X, which insist in allocating *all* the declared memory area even for a sparse file, we must choose a less efficient approach: * marshal the value v to a string s, and compute its size * allocate a mmap of that exact size, * copy the string to that mmap this allocates twice as much memory, and incurs an extra copy of the value v *) let marshal fd v = let s = Marshal.to_string v [Marshal.Closures] in ignore(Bytearray.mmap_of_string fd s) (* create a shadow file descriptor *) let tempfd () = let name = Filename.temp_file "mmap" "TMP" in try let fd = Unix.openfile name [Unix.O_RDWR; Unix.O_CREAT] 0o600 in Unix.unlink name; fd with e -> Unix.unlink name; raise e (* a simple mapper function that computes 1/nth of the data on each of the n cores in one iteration *) let simplemapper ncores compute opid al collect = (* flush everything *) flush_all(); (* init task parameters *) let ln = Array.length al in let chunksize = ln/ncores in (* create descriptors to mmap *) let fdarr=Array.init ncores (fun _ -> tempfd()) in (* call the GC before forking *) Gc.compact (); (* spawn children *) for i = 0 to ncores-1 do match Unix.fork() with 0 -> begin let lo=i*chunksize in let hi=if i=ncores-1 then ln-1 else (i+1)*chunksize-1 in let exc_handler e j = (* handle an exception at index j *) info "error at index j=%d in (%d,%d), chunksize=%d of a total of %d got exception %s on core %d \n%!" j lo hi chunksize (hi-lo+1) (Printexc.to_string e) i; exit 1 in let v = compute al lo hi opid exc_handler in marshal fdarr.(i) v; exit 0 end | -1 -> info "fork error: pid %d; i=%d" (Unix.getpid()) i; | pid -> () done; (* wait for all children *) for i = 0 to ncores-1 do try ignore(Unix.wait()) with Unix.Unix_error (Unix.ECHILD, _, _) -> () done; (* read in all data *) let res = ref [] in (* iterate in reverse order, to accumulate in the right order *) for i = 0 to ncores-1 do res:= ((unmarshal fdarr.((ncores-1)-i)):'d)::!res; done; (* collect all results *) collect !res ;; (* a more sophisticated mapper function, with automatic load balancing *) (* the type of messages exchanged between master and workers *) type msg_to_master = Ready of int | Error of int * string;; type msg_to_worker = Finished | Task of int;; let setup_children_chans oc pipedown fdarr i = Setcore.setcore i; (* send stdout and stderr to a file to avoid mixing output from different cores *) reopen_out stdout (Printf.sprintf "stdout.%d" i); reopen_out stderr (Printf.sprintf "stderr.%d" i); (* close the other ends of the pipe and convert my ends to ic/oc *) Unix.close (snd pipedown.(i)); let pid = Unix.getpid() in let ic = Unix.in_channel_of_descr (fst pipedown.(i)) in let receive () = Marshal.from_channel ic in let signal v = Marshal.to_channel oc v []; flush oc in let return v = let d = Unix.gettimeofday() in let _ = marshal fdarr.(i) v in debug "worker elapsed %f in marshalling" (Unix.gettimeofday() -. d) in let finish () = (debug "shutting down (pid=%d)\n%!" pid; try close_in ic; close_out oc with _ -> () ); exit 0 in receive, signal, return, finish, pid ;; (* parametric mapper primitive that captures the parallel structure *) let mapper ncores ~chunksize compute opid al collect = let ln = Array.length al in match chunksize with None -> simplemapper ncores compute opid al collect (* no need of load balancing *) | Some v when ncores=ln/v -> simplemapper ncores compute opid al collect (* no need of load balancing *) | Some v -> (* init task parameters *) let chunksize = v and ntasks = ln/v in (* flush everything *) flush_all (); (* create descriptors to mmap *) let fdarr=Array.init ncores (fun _ -> tempfd()) in (* setup communication channel with the workers *) let pipedown=Array.init ncores (fun _ -> Unix.pipe ()) in let pipeup_rd,pipeup_wr=Unix.pipe () in let oc_up = Unix.out_channel_of_descr pipeup_wr in (* call the GC before forking *) Gc.compact (); (* spawn children *) for i = 0 to ncores-1 do match Unix.fork() with 0 -> begin let d=Unix.gettimeofday() in (* primitives for communication *) Unix.close pipeup_rd; let receive,signal,return,finish,pid = setup_children_chans oc_up pipedown fdarr i in let reschunk=ref opid in let computetask n = (* compute chunk number n *) let lo=n*chunksize in let hi=if n=ntasks-1 then ln-1 else (n+1)*chunksize-1 in let exc_handler e j = (* handle an exception at index j *) begin let errmsg = Printexc.to_string e in info "error at index j=%d in (%d,%d), chunksize=%d of a total of %d got exception %s on core %d \n%!" j lo hi chunksize (hi-lo+1) errmsg i; signal (Error (i,errmsg)); finish() end in reschunk:= compute al lo hi !reschunk exc_handler; info "worker on core %d (pid=%d), segment (%d,%d) of data of length %d, chunksize=%d finished in %f seconds" i pid lo hi ln chunksize (Unix.gettimeofday() -. d) in while true do (* ask for work until we are finished *) signal (Ready i); match receive() with | Finished -> return (!reschunk:'d); finish () | Task n -> computetask n done; end | -1 -> info "fork error: pid %d; i=%d" (Unix.getpid()) i; | pid -> () done; (* close unused ends of the pipes *) Array.iter (fun (rfd,_) -> Unix.close rfd) pipedown; Unix.close pipeup_wr; (* get ic/oc/wfdl *) let ocs=Array.init ncores (fun n -> Unix.out_channel_of_descr (snd pipedown.(n))) in let ic=Unix.in_channel_of_descr pipeup_rd in (* feed workers until all tasks are finished *) for i=0 to ntasks-1 do match Marshal.from_channel ic with Ready w -> (debug "sending task %d to worker %d" i w; let oc = ocs.(w) in (Marshal.to_channel oc (Task i) []); flush oc) | Error (core,msg) -> (info "aborting due to exception on core %d: %s" core msg; exit 1) done; (* send termination token to all children *) Array.iter (fun oc -> Marshal.to_channel oc Finished []; flush oc; close_out oc ) ocs; (* wait for all children to terminate *) for i = 0 to ncores-1 do try ignore(Unix.wait()) with Unix.Unix_error (Unix.ECHILD, _, _) -> () done; (* read in all data *) let res = ref [] in (* iterate in reverse order, to accumulate in the right order *) for i = 0 to ncores-1 do res:= ((unmarshal fdarr.((ncores-1)-i)):'d)::!res; done; (* collect all results *) collect !res ;; (* the parallel mapfold function *) let parmapfold ?(ncores=1) ?(chunksize) (f:'a -> 'b) (s:'a sequence) (op:'b->'c->'c) (opid:'c) (concat:'c->'c->'c) : 'c= (* enforce array to speed up access to the list elements *) let al = match s with A al -> al | L l -> Array.of_list l in let compute al lo hi previous exc_handler = (* iterate in reverse order, to accumulate in the right order *) let r = ref previous in for j=0 to (hi-lo) do try r := op (f (Array.unsafe_get al (hi-j))) !r; with e -> exc_handler e j done; !r in mapper ncores ~chunksize compute opid al (fun r -> List.fold_right concat r opid) ;; (* the parallel map function *) let parmap ?(ncores=1) ?chunksize (f:'a -> 'b) (s:'a sequence) : 'b list= (* enforce array to speed up access to the list elements *) let al = match s with A al -> al | L l -> Array.of_list l in let compute al lo hi previous exc_handler = (* iterate in reverse order, to accumulate in the right order, and add to acc *) let f' j = try f (Array.unsafe_get al (lo+j)) with e -> exc_handler e j in let rec aux acc = function 0 -> (f' 0)::acc | n -> aux ((f' n)::acc) (n-1) in aux previous (hi-lo) in mapper ncores ~chunksize compute [] al (fun r -> ExtLib.List.concat r) ;; (* the parallel fold function *) let parfold ?(ncores=1) ?chunksize (op:'a -> 'b -> 'b) (s:'a sequence) (opid:'b) (concat:'b->'b->'b) : 'b= parmapfold ~ncores ?chunksize (fun x -> x) s op opid concat ;; (* the parallel map function, on arrays *) let map_intv lo hi f a = let l = hi-lo in if l < 0 then [||] else begin let r = Array.create (l+1) (f(Array.unsafe_get a lo)) in for i = 1 to l do Array.unsafe_set r i (f(Array.unsafe_get a (lo+i))) done; r end let array_parmap ?(ncores=1) ?chunksize (f:'a -> 'b) (al:'a array) : 'b array= let compute a lo hi previous exc_handler = try Array.concat [(map_intv lo hi f a);previous] with e -> exc_handler e lo in mapper ncores ~chunksize compute [||] al (fun r -> Array.concat r) ;; (* This code is highly optimised for operations on float arrays: - knowing in advance the size of the result allows to pre-allocate it in a shared memory space as a Bigarray; - to write in the Bigarray memory area using the unsafe functions for Arrays, we trick the OCaml compiler into using the Bigarray memory as an Array as follows Array.unsafe_get (Obj.magic arr_out) 1 This works because OCaml compiles access to float arrays as unboxed data, without further integrity checks; - the final copy into a real OCaml array is done via a memcpy in C. This approach gives a performance which is 2 to 3 times higher w.r.t. array_parmap, at the price of using Obj.magic and knowledge on the internal representation of arrays and bigarrays. *) exception WrongArraySize type buf= (float, Bigarray.float64_elt, Bigarray.c_layout) Bigarray.Array1.t * int;; (* should be a long int some day *) let init_shared_buffer a = let size = Array.length a in let fd = tempfd() in let arr = Bigarray.Array1.map_file fd Bigarray.float64 Bigarray.c_layout true size in (* The mmap() function shall add an extra reference to the file associated with the file descriptor fildes which is not removed by a subsequent close() on that file descriptor. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/mmap.html *) Unix.close fd; (arr,size) ;; let array_float_parmap ?(ncores=1) ?chunksize ?result ?sharedbuffer (f:'a -> float) (al:'a array) : float array = let size = Array.length al in let barr_out = match sharedbuffer with Some (arr,s) -> if s fst (init_shared_buffer al) in (* trick the compiler into accessing the Bigarray memory area as a float array: the data in Bigarray is placed at offset 1 w.r.t. a normal array, so we get a pointer to that zone into arr_out_as_array, and have it typed as a float array *) let barr_out_as_array = Array.unsafe_get (Obj.magic barr_out) 1 in let compute _ lo hi _ exc_handler = try for i=lo to hi do Array.unsafe_set barr_out_as_array i (f (Array.unsafe_get al i)) done with e -> exc_handler e lo in mapper ncores ~chunksize compute () al (fun r -> ()); let res = match result with None -> Bytearray.to_floatarray barr_out size | Some a -> if Array.length a < size then (info "result array is too small to hold the result in array_float_parmap"; raise WrongArraySize) else Bytearray.to_this_floatarray a barr_out size in res ;;