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leonarski_fandClaude Opus 5.5 e3b33591ca GPU: kernels read host buffers in place on unified-memory systems
gpu_direct_host_read() (CUDAWrapper) is true where the device accesses pageable
memory through the host's page tables (cudaDevAttrPageableMemoryAccess and
...UsesHostPageTables: GB10, GH200, GB200), asked once per device;
JFJOCH_FORCE_DIRECT_HOST_READ forces it on for testing with page-locked inputs.
Where it holds:
- BSLZ4DecoderGPU: the LZ4/fused kernels and the tail copy read the reader's
  compressed chunk directly, no pinned staging memcpy and no H2D copy;
- ImagePreprocessorGPU: Analyze and the UINT16_WIDENED path hand the host
  buffer to preprocess_kernel (if aligned to the pixel type), and nothing is
  page-locked;
- RotationScaleMergeGPU::IngestUpload: IngestExtractKernel reads the pinned
  stage in place, without device staging buffers; the stage is reused only
  after the kernel has run.
Discrete cards take the unchanged path. Every caller synchronises its stream
before the host buffer goes away. DirectHostReadGPUTest checks the three
sites against the CPU on page-locked inputs, in either mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 21:49:37 +02:00

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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Filip Leonarski, Paul Scherrer Institute <filip.leonarski@psi.ch>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
#pragma once
#include <memory>
#include "../../common/CompressedImage.h"
#include "../indexing/CUDAMemHelpers.h"
// One bitshuffle block, located by the host scan and consumed by both kernels.
struct BSLZ4BlockDesc {
uint32_t in_off; // byte offset of the LZ4 payload within the chunk
uint32_t in_len; // compressed length
uint32_t out_off; // byte offset of this block's output in the image
uint32_t nelem; // elements in this block (the last one is usually shorter)
};
// One chunk, on the device, with everything the rest of the decode needs to finish the image. The
// tail is the handful of elements bitshuffle stores verbatim; it is already on the device inside the
// uploaded chunk, so it is handed over as a device pointer rather than copied again from the host.
//
// DecodeShuffled() fills in `shuffled` - the LZ4 output, still bitshuffled. UploadCompressed()
// leaves it null and hands over `compressed` and `status` instead, so the caller can run the LZ4
// pass itself.
struct BSLZ4ShuffledImage {
const uint8_t *shuffled = nullptr;
const uint8_t *compressed = nullptr; // the uploaded chunk; desc[].in_off indexes into it
const BSLZ4BlockDesc *desc = nullptr;
uint32_t *status = nullptr; // where a caller-run LZ4 pass flags a bad block
int nblocks = 0;
uint32_t elem_size = 0;
uint32_t block_bytes = 0; // uncompressed bytes in a full bitshuffle block
const uint8_t *tail_src = nullptr;
uint32_t tail_elems = 0;
uint32_t tail_elem0 = 0; // index of the first tail element in the image
};
// Decompress a bitshuffle+LZ4 image ON THE DEVICE, so the compressed bytes are what crosses PCIe.
//
// The idea - upload the compressed chunk and decode it on the GPU rather than decompressing on the
// host - is Jon Wright's (ESRF); see https://github.com/jonwright/bslz4decoders and his 2021 HDF5
// User Group talk "Experiences with GPU decompression for bitshuffle + LZ4 data". The kernels here
// are our own, but the approach, and the observation that it is worth doing at all, are his.
//
// Why it pays: a full 18 Mpx uint32 frame is 72 MB decompressed and about 4 MB compressed, and
// profiling showed the host-to-device copy owning ~78% of the per-image loop against ~39% for
// kernels. Decoding on the device removes both that transfer and the host-side decompression,
// whose memory traffic was itself holding the copy engine well below the link rate.
//
// Only BSHUF_LZ4 is handled. The zstd variants have no device decoder, so Supports() returns false
// and the caller decompresses on the host exactly as before.
//
// The container comes off the network or off disk, so it is not trusted. Everything the host can
// check cheaply is checked before any work is queued and throws; what only the kernel can see - a
// block that does not decode to its declared length, which is what a corrupt LZ4 payload looks like
// - raises a device-side flag that ThrowIfDecodeFailed() reports once the caller has synchronised.
// The CPU decoder makes exactly the same checks (LZ4_decompress_safe's length check plus the
// consumed-input check in JFJochDecompress.h), so a chunk either decodes identically on both or
// fails on both. It is never silently wrong on one and right on the other.
class BSLZ4DecoderGPU {
std::shared_ptr<CudaStream> stream;
CudaDevicePtr<uint8_t> gpu_compressed;
// The chunk is copied here before it is uploaded. The reader's buffer is pageable, and the driver
// uploads pageable memory through small staging buffers of its own, a piece at a time - at a few
// GB/s on a host whose memory is far from the card. Copied here, the upload is one DMA at the link rate.
CudaHostPtr<uint8_t> host_compressed;
// The card reads the chunk where the reader left it (gpu_direct_host_read()); neither buffer above
// is then used.
bool direct_host_read = false;
CudaDevicePtr<uint8_t> gpu_shuffled; // LZ4 output, still bitshuffled
CudaDevicePtr<BSLZ4BlockDesc> gpu_desc;
CudaHostPtr<BSLZ4BlockDesc> host_desc; // pinned, so the descriptor upload is truly async
CudaDevicePtr<uint32_t> gpu_status; // set by the kernel when a block decodes short
CudaHostPtr<uint32_t> host_status;
// Bracket the decode so the time it takes can still be reported as decompression, which is what
// it is. Both are recorded on the decoder's stream and read after the caller synchronises.
CudaEvent decode_start;
CudaEvent decode_stop;
bool decode_timed = false;
size_t max_uncompressed_bytes = 0;
size_t compressed_capacity = 0;
size_t max_blocks = 0;
void EnsureCompressedCapacity(size_t bytes);
void EnsureUncompressedCapacity(size_t bytes);
void EnsureBlockCapacity(size_t nblocks);
// Scan the container and upload it, stopping short of decoding the blocks.
BSLZ4ShuffledImage PrepareChunk(const CompressedImage &image);
public:
BSLZ4DecoderGPU(size_t max_uncompressed_bytes, std::shared_ptr<CudaStream> stream);
// Waits for the stream: its pooled buffers are freed next (see CudaDevicePtr).
~BSLZ4DecoderGPU() { if (stream) cudaStreamSynchronize(*stream); }
// True when this image can be decoded on the device. Everything else must go the host route.
static bool Supports(const CompressedImage &image);
// The uncompressed size of one bitshuffle block, straight out of the chunk header, so a caller
// that wants to decode the blocks in shared memory can size that memory before it commits to
// the route. Zero when the chunk is too short to hold a header, which the decode then reports.
static uint32_t BlockBytes(const CompressedImage &image);
// Locate the blocks, upload the chunk, and run the LZ4 pass. The result is still bitshuffled -
// the caller finishes it, either with Decode()'s un-transpose or by fusing the un-transpose into
// its own kernel. Work is queued on the decoder's stream and the caller synchronises.
BSLZ4ShuffledImage DecodeShuffled(const CompressedImage &image);
// Upload the chunk and locate its blocks, and stop there. For a caller that runs the LZ4 pass
// in its OWN kernel, decoding each block into shared memory and consuming it there, so the
// bitshuffled bytes never reach device memory. Such a caller must call QueueDecodeStatus()
// once that kernel is queued.
BSLZ4ShuffledImage UploadCompressed(const CompressedImage &image);
// Queue the device-side failure flag back to the host. DecodeShuffled() does this itself; a
// caller that decodes the blocks in its own kernel does it after queueing that kernel, or the
// flag ThrowIfDecodeFailed() reads is the one from before the decode.
void QueueDecodeStatus();
// Decode into gpu_out, which must hold image.GetUncompressedSize() bytes. The plain raw-bytes
// path: DecodeShuffled() plus the un-transpose. Used by the tests and by any caller that wants
// the decompressed image rather than a preprocessed one.
void Decode(const CompressedImage &image, uint8_t *gpu_out);
// Report a block that did not decode to its declared length. MUST be called after the caller has
// synchronised the stream; until then the flag has not arrived. Throws on failure.
void ThrowIfDecodeFailed();
// Device time spent decoding the last image, in seconds. Valid after the caller synchronises.
[[nodiscard]] float GetDecodeTime_s() const;
};