optimize sharding stage3 offload (#39397)

PaddlePaddle · Feb 9, 2022 · b292dfb · b292dfb
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diff --git a/python/paddle/distributed/fleet/meta_parallel/sharding/sharding_stage3.py b/python/paddle/distributed/fleet/meta_parallel/sharding/sharding_stage3.py
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def __init__(self,
         self._offload = offload
         self._sync_comm = sync_comm
         # segmentation size
-        self._segment_size = segment_size if not offload else 0
+        self._segment_size = segment_size
 
         global DEV
         DEV = "cpu" if paddle.get_device() == "cpu" else paddle.get_device(
@@ -191,8 +191,23 @@ def _clear_gradients(self):
             param.fw_storage._gradient_set_empty(False)
             param.bw_storage._clear()
         # 2.Handle unslice param
-        for grad_storage in self._grad_storages.values():
-            grad_storage.buffer.zero_()
+        if not self._offload:
+            for grad_storage in self._grad_storages.values():
+                grad_storage.buffer.zero_()
+        else:
+            for param in list(self._unslice_params):
+                param.clear_gradient(False)
+                param._gradient_set_empty(False)
+                tmp_var = param.cuda(DEV_ID)
+                param._clear()
+                if tmp_var.dtype == Type.fp32.value and param2dtype[
+                        param.name] == Type.fp16.value:
+                    tmp_var = paddle.cast(tmp_var, Type.fp16.value)
+                tmp_var._share_buffer_to(param)
+                tmp_var._clear()
+            for grad_storage in self._grad_storages.values():
+                grad_storage.manumal_relase()
+                grad_storage.rebuild()
 
     # Update param memery slice
     def _update_params_slice(self):
@@ -455,6 +470,21 @@ def _update_params(self):
                 group=self._group,
                 use_calc_stream=True)
 
+        if self._offload:
+            for param in list(self._unslice_params):
+                tmp_var = _device2cpu(param, convert_dtype=True)
+                tmp_var._share_buffer_to(param)
+                tmp_var._clear()
+
+            for grad_storage in self._grad_storages.values():
+                for p in grad_storage._params:
+                    tmp_g = _device2cpu(p.grad, convert_dtype=True)
+                    p.clear_gradient(False)
+                    p._gradient_set_empty(False)
+                    p._copy_gradient_from(tmp_g)
+                    tmp_g._clear()
+                grad_storage.buffer._clear()
+
         return update_list
 
     def get_all_parameters(self, convert2cpu=False):

diff --git a/python/paddle/distributed/fleet/meta_parallel/sharding/sharding_utils.py b/python/paddle/distributed/fleet/meta_parallel/sharding/sharding_utils.py
@@ -131,14 +131,15 @@ def _dygraph_clip(self, params_grads):
         clip_var_fp16 = paddle.cast(clip_var, paddle.float16)
 
         for p, g in params_grads:
-            if g is None:
-                continue
-            if getattr(p, 'need_clip', True) is False:
+            if getattr(p, 'need_clip', True) is False or g is None:
                 continue
+            origin_state = g.stop_gradient
+            g.stop_gradient = True
             if p.dtype == paddle.float16:
                 g.scale_(clip_var_fp16)
             else:
                 g.scale_(clip_var)
+            g.stop_gradient = origin_state
             p._reset_grad_inplace_version(True)
 
         return params_grads