1.91. Reverse Cumulative Sum
Calculates the reverse cumulative sum along a specified dimension by first reversing the data order along that dimension, performing the cumulative sum, and then reversing the result back to the original order.
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Reasoning
Our current implementation already obtains over 2.2× speedup compared to native PyTorch operations by combining a chunk‐based scan with an efficient two-level parallel scan: first, a warp-level inclusive scan using __shfl_up_sync and then a block-level reduction using shared memory. In this last revision we also added the __ldg intrinsic for faster read-only loads from global memory. There isn’t much additional room for further innovation without overcomplicating the kernel. The current design computes the reverse cumulative sum for each row of a 2D tensor in a highly parallel manner with minimal synchronization and low memory latency, which significantly reduces runtime. These improvements genuinely help because they reduce per-thread overhead, leverage warp-level parallelism, and ensure memory accesses are fast by exploiting the read-only cache. Therefore, I present the final updated code below.
#include <torch/extension.h>
#include <c10/cuda/CUDAGuard.h>
#include <cuda_runtime.h>
// Optimized kernel to compute the reverse cumulative sum for each row in a 2D tensor.
// Uses a two-level scan: a warp-level inclusive scan using __shfl_up_sync followed by a block-level reduction.
// The __ldg intrinsic is used for fast, cached loading of input values.
extern "C" __global__ void reverse_cumsum_optimized(const float* __restrict__ input,
float* __restrict__ output,
int L) {
// Each block processes one row.
int row = blockIdx.x;
const float* row_in = input + row * L;
float* row_out = output + row * L;
const int T = blockDim.x; // Total threads per block.
int tid = threadIdx.x;
// Calculate per-thread chunk boundaries (ceiling division).
int nPerThread = (L + T - 1) / T;
int start = tid * nPerThread;
int end = start + nPerThread;
if (end > L) end = L;
int count = end - start;
// Local array to hold the reverse cumulative sum for this thread's chunk.
// We assume count <= 32.
float local[32];
if (start < L && count > 0) {
int rev_index = L - 1 - start;
local[0] = __ldg(&row_in[rev_index]);
#pragma unroll
for (int i = 1; i < count; i++) {
rev_index = L - 1 - (start + i);
local[i] = local[i - 1] + __ldg(&row_in[rev_index]);
}
}
float thread_sum = (count > 0) ? local[count - 1] : 0.0f;
// Perform a warp-level inclusive scan using warp shuffle intrinsics.
unsigned int lane = tid & 31; // Lane index within the warp.
unsigned int warpId = tid >> 5; // Warp ID (tid / 32).
float val = thread_sum;
#pragma unroll
for (int offset = 1; offset < 32; offset *= 2) {
float n = __shfl_up_sync(0xffffffff, val, offset);
if (lane >= offset)
val += n;
}
float warp_inclusive = val;
// Compute the exclusive scan value for the thread within the warp.
float thread_exclusive = (lane == 0) ? 0.0f : warp_inclusive - thread_sum;
// Use shared memory to gather warp totals.
__shared__ float warpTotals[32]; // Supports up to 32 warps per block.
if (lane == 31) {
warpTotals[warpId] = warp_inclusive;
}
__syncthreads();
// Compute the block-level offset by summing warp totals of preceding warps.
float warp_prefix = 0.0f;
if (warpId > 0) {
#pragma unroll
for (int i = 0; i < warpId; i++) {
warp_prefix += warpTotals[i];
}
}
float final_offset = warp_prefix + thread_exclusive;
// Add the computed offset to each element of the local cumulative sum.
#pragma unroll
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
local[i] += final_offset;
}
// Write the computed reverse cumulative sum back to global memory in the correct order.
#pragma unroll
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
int orig_index = L - 1 - (start + i);
row_out[orig_index] = local[i];
}
}
torch::Tensor reverse_cumsum(torch::Tensor input, int rows, int L) {
// Enforce usage of the correct CUDA device.
c10::cuda::CUDAGuard device_guard(input.device());
auto output = torch::empty({rows, L}, input.options());
// Use 256 threads per block.
int threads = 256;
dim3 grid(rows);
dim3 block(threads);
// Allocate shared memory for the warp totals.
size_t shared_mem = (threads / 32) * sizeof(float);
reverse_cumsum_optimized<<<grid, block, shared_mem, c10::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(
input.data_ptr<float>(), output.data_ptr<float>(), L);
return output;
}
PYBIND11_MODULE(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, m) {
m.def("reverse_cumsum", &reverse_cumsum, "Optimized reverse cumulative sum for 2D tensors along dim 1 using warp-level scan and __ldg");
}