/* Kernels for gelu forward pass. Compile example: nvcc -O3 --use_fast_math gelu_forward.cu -o gelu_forward If encountering "error: identifier "M_PI" is undefined", add the following lines to the top of the file: #define _USE_MATH_DEFINES #include OR #include version 1 is naive port from CPU code to kernel ./gelu_forward 1 */ #include #include #include #include "common.h" // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // CPU code reference #define GELU_SCALING_FACTOR sqrtf(2.0f / M_PI) void gelu_forward_cpu(float* out, const float* inp, int N) { for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) { float x = inp[i]; float cube = 0.044715f * x * x * x; out[i] = 0.5f * x * (1.0f + tanhf(GELU_SCALING_FACTOR * (x + cube))); } } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // GPU kernels // elementwise ops are nice and ez __global__ void gelu_kernel(float* out, const float* inp, int N) { int i = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; if (i < N) { float xi = inp[i]; float cube = 0.044715f * xi * xi * xi; out[i] = 0.5f * xi * (1.0f + tanhf(GELU_SCALING_FACTOR * (xi + cube))); } } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // kernel launcher void gelu_forward1(float* out, const float* inp, int N, const int block_size) { const int grid_size = ceil_div(N, block_size); gelu_kernel<<>>(out, inp, N); cudaCheck(cudaGetLastError()); } // kernel version dispatch void gelu_forward(int kernel_num, float* out, const float* inp, int B, int T, int C, int block_size) { switch (kernel_num) { case 1: gelu_forward1(out, inp, B * T * C, block_size); break; default: printf("Invalid kernel number\n"); exit(1); } } // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- int main(int argc, char **argv) { srand(0); int B = 8; int T = 1024; int C = 768; int deviceIdx = 0; cudaCheck(cudaSetDevice(deviceIdx)); // create host memory of random numbers float* out = (float*)malloc(B * T * C * sizeof(float)); float* inp = make_random_float(B * T * C); // move to GPU float* d_out; float* d_inp; cudaCheck(cudaMalloc(&d_out, B * T * C * sizeof(float))); cudaCheck(cudaMalloc(&d_inp, B * T * C * sizeof(float))); cudaCheck(cudaMemcpy(d_inp, inp, B * T * C * sizeof(float), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice)); // read kernel_num from command line int kernel_num = 1; if (argc > 1) { kernel_num = atoi(argv[1]); } printf("Using kernel %d\n", kernel_num); // first check the correctness of the kernel gelu_forward_cpu(out, inp, B * T * C); // time the kernel at different block sizes int block_sizes[] = {32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024}; for (int j = 0; j < sizeof(block_sizes) / sizeof(int); j++) { int block_size = block_sizes[j]; printf("Checking block size %d.\n", block_size); gelu_forward(kernel_num, d_out, d_inp, B, T, C, block_size); validate_result(d_out, out, "out", B * T * C, 1e-5f); } printf("All results match. Starting benchmarks.\n\n"); for (int j = 0; j < sizeof(block_sizes) / sizeof(int); j++) { int block_size = block_sizes[j]; int repeat_times = 1000; float elapsed_time = benchmark_kernel(repeat_times, gelu_forward, kernel_num, d_out, d_inp, B, T, C, block_size); // napkin math: estimate the memory bandwidth achieved // for each (B,T,C) output element, we do 1 read and 1 write, 4 bytes each // and e.g. A100 40GB PCIe is advertised at 1,555GB/s long memory_ops = B * T * C * 2 * 4; float memory_bandwidth = memory_ops / elapsed_time / 1e6; printf("block_size %4d | time %.4f ms | bandwidth %.2f GB/s\n", block_size, elapsed_time, memory_bandwidth); } // free memory free(out); free(inp); cudaCheck(cudaFree(d_out)); cudaCheck(cudaFree(d_inp)); return 0; }