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@yuehhua yuehhua commented Jun 3, 2022

@yuehhua yuehhua force-pushed the fix branch 2 times, most recently from 3b4e280 to 72356fd Compare June 4, 2022 05:37
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yuehhua commented Jun 5, 2022

@DhairyaLGandhi would you please review this?

dstsize = (size(src)[1:Nsrc-M]..., size(idx)...)
dst = similar(src, Tsrc, dstsize)
return NNlib.gather!(dst, src, idx)
end
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Why we need this method? The one in Nlib is not enough?

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I take it from NNlib. The dispatching rule needs to distinguish (::AnyCuArray, ::AnyCuArray) from (::AnyCuArray, ::AbstractArray).

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I still don't see why we need this since we have (::AbstractArray, ::AbstractArray) in NNlib

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I'm not sure we should do this. It is a technically breaking change. Also CUDA.jl allows for cpu index, so maybe gather should do the same

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Good point. This might be over-engineered. If users care about the speed it's the standard practice to set CUDA.allowscalar(false), which would prevent users from using CPU index. This should be sufficient.

using CUDA, NNlib
CUDA.allowscalar(false)

a = CUDA.rand(200,3000,64)
idx = cu(rand(1:64,5))

NNlib.gather(a, idx)


ERROR: Scalar indexing is disallowed.
Invocation of getindex resulted in scalar indexing of a GPU array.
This is typically caused by calling an iterating implementation of a method.
Such implementations *do not* execute on the GPU, but very slowly on the CPU,
and therefore are only permitted from the REPL for prototyping purposes.
If you did intend to index this array, annotate the caller with @allowscalar.

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yuehhua commented Jun 6, 2022

I am also not sure we need it but maybe users expect some guidance to prevent from abuse.

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always put the index on GPU if the soure array is there when using gather
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