[backport][pyspark] Support stage-level scheduling (dmlc#9519) (dmlc#9686)

Co-authored-by: Bobby Wang <[email protected]>

Author: trivialfis

python-package/xgboost/spark/core.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
-from pyspark import SparkContext, cloudpickle
+from pyspark import RDD, SparkContext, cloudpickle
 from pyspark.ml import Estimator, Model
 from pyspark.ml.functions import array_to_vector, vector_to_array
 from pyspark.ml.linalg import VectorUDT
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
     MLWritable,
     MLWriter,
 )
+from pyspark.resource import ResourceProfileBuilder, TaskResourceRequests
 from pyspark.sql import Column, DataFrame
 from pyspark.sql.functions import col, countDistinct, pandas_udf, rand, struct
 from pyspark.sql.types import (
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@
     _get_rabit_args,
     _get_spark_session,
     _is_local,
+    _is_standalone_or_localcluster,
     deserialize_booster,
     deserialize_xgb_model,
     get_class_name,
@@ -342,6 +344,54 @@ def _gen_predict_params_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
                 predict_params[param.name] = self.getOrDefault(param)
         return predict_params
 
+    def _validate_gpu_params(self) -> None:
+        """Validate the gpu parameters and gpu configurations"""
+
+        if use_cuda(self.getOrDefault(self.device)) or self.getOrDefault(self.use_gpu):
+            ss = _get_spark_session()
+            sc = ss.sparkContext
+
+            if _is_local(sc):
+                # Support GPU training in Spark local mode is just for debugging
+                # purposes, so it's okay for printing the below warning instead of
+                # checking the real gpu numbers and raising the exception.
+                get_logger(self.__class__.__name__).warning(
+                    "You have enabled GPU in spark local mode. Please make sure your"
+                    " local node has at least %d GPUs",
+                    self.getOrDefault(self.num_workers),
+                )
+            else:
+                executor_gpus = sc.getConf().get("spark.executor.resource.gpu.amount")
+                if executor_gpus is None:
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        "The `spark.executor.resource.gpu.amount` is required for training"
+                        " on GPU."
+                    )
+
+                if not (ss.version >= "3.4.0" and _is_standalone_or_localcluster(sc)):
+                    # We will enable stage-level scheduling in spark 3.4.0+ which doesn't
+                    # require spark.task.resource.gpu.amount to be set explicitly
+                    gpu_per_task = sc.getConf().get("spark.task.resource.gpu.amount")
+                    if gpu_per_task is not None:
+                        if float(gpu_per_task) < 1.0:
+                            raise ValueError(
+                                "XGBoost doesn't support GPU fractional configurations. "
+                                "Please set `spark.task.resource.gpu.amount=spark.executor"
+                                ".resource.gpu.amount`"
+                            )
+
+                        if float(gpu_per_task) > 1.0:
+                            get_logger(self.__class__.__name__).warning(
+                                "%s GPUs for each Spark task is configured, but each "
+                                "XGBoost training task uses only 1 GPU.",
+                                gpu_per_task,
+                            )
+                    else:
+                        raise ValueError(
+                            "The `spark.task.resource.gpu.amount` is required for training"
+                            " on GPU."
+                        )
+
     def _validate_params(self) -> None:
         # pylint: disable=too-many-branches
         init_model = self.getOrDefault("xgb_model")
@@ -421,53 +471,7 @@ def _validate_params(self) -> None:
                     "`pyspark.ml.linalg.Vector` type."
                 )
 
-        if use_cuda(self.getOrDefault(self.device)) or self.getOrDefault(self.use_gpu):
-            gpu_per_task = (
-                _get_spark_session()
-                .sparkContext.getConf()
-                .get("spark.task.resource.gpu.amount")
-            )
-
-            is_local = _is_local(_get_spark_session().sparkContext)
-
-            if is_local:
-                # checking spark local mode.
-                if gpu_per_task is not None:
-                    raise RuntimeError(
-                        "The spark local mode does not support gpu configuration."
-                        "Please remove spark.executor.resource.gpu.amount and "
-                        "spark.task.resource.gpu.amount"
-                    )
-
-                # Support GPU training in Spark local mode is just for debugging
-                # purposes, so it's okay for printing the below warning instead of
-                # checking the real gpu numbers and raising the exception.
-                get_logger(self.__class__.__name__).warning(
-                    "You have enabled GPU in spark local mode. Please make sure your"
-                    " local node has at least %d GPUs",
-                    self.getOrDefault(self.num_workers),
-                )
-            else:
-                # checking spark non-local mode.
-                if gpu_per_task is not None:
-                    if float(gpu_per_task) < 1.0:
-                        raise ValueError(
-                            "XGBoost doesn't support GPU fractional configurations. "
-                            "Please set `spark.task.resource.gpu.amount=spark.executor"
-                            ".resource.gpu.amount`"
-                        )
-
-                    if float(gpu_per_task) > 1.0:
-                        get_logger(self.__class__.__name__).warning(
-                            "%s GPUs for each Spark task is configured, but each "
-                            "XGBoost training task uses only 1 GPU.",
-                            gpu_per_task,
-                        )
-                else:
-                    raise ValueError(
-                        "The `spark.task.resource.gpu.amount` is required for training"
-                        " on GPU."
-                    )
+        self._validate_gpu_params()
 
 
 def _validate_and_convert_feature_col_as_float_col_list(
@@ -592,6 +596,8 @@ def __init__(self) -> None:
             arbitrary_params_dict={},
         )
 
+        self.logger = get_logger(self.__class__.__name__)
+
     def setParams(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
         """
         Set params for the estimator.
@@ -894,6 +900,116 @@ def _get_xgb_parameters(
 
         return booster_params, train_call_kwargs_params, dmatrix_kwargs
 
+    def _skip_stage_level_scheduling(self) -> bool:
+        # pylint: disable=too-many-return-statements
+        """Check if stage-level scheduling is not needed,
+        return true to skip stage-level scheduling"""
+
+        if use_cuda(self.getOrDefault(self.device)) or self.getOrDefault(self.use_gpu):
+            ss = _get_spark_session()
+            sc = ss.sparkContext
+
+            if ss.version < "3.4.0":
+                self.logger.info(
+                    "Stage-level scheduling in xgboost requires spark version 3.4.0+"
+                )
+                return True
+
+            if not _is_standalone_or_localcluster(sc):
+                self.logger.info(
+                    "Stage-level scheduling in xgboost requires spark standalone or "
+                    "local-cluster mode"
+                )
+                return True
+
+            executor_cores = sc.getConf().get("spark.executor.cores")
+            executor_gpus = sc.getConf().get("spark.executor.resource.gpu.amount")
+            if executor_cores is None or executor_gpus is None:
+                self.logger.info(
+                    "Stage-level scheduling in xgboost requires spark.executor.cores, "
+                    "spark.executor.resource.gpu.amount to be set."
+                )
+                return True
+
+            if int(executor_cores) == 1:
+                # there will be only 1 task running at any time.
+                self.logger.info(
+                    "Stage-level scheduling in xgboost requires spark.executor.cores > 1 "
+                )
+                return True
+
+            if int(executor_gpus) > 1:
+                # For spark.executor.resource.gpu.amount > 1, we suppose user knows how to configure
+                # to make xgboost run successfully.
+                #
+                self.logger.info(
+                    "Stage-level scheduling in xgboost will not work "
+                    "when spark.executor.resource.gpu.amount>1"
+                )
+                return True
+
+            task_gpu_amount = sc.getConf().get("spark.task.resource.gpu.amount")
+
+            if task_gpu_amount is None:
+                # The ETL tasks will not grab a gpu when spark.task.resource.gpu.amount is not set,
+                # but with stage-level scheduling, we can make training task grab the gpu.
+                return False
+
+            if float(task_gpu_amount) == float(executor_gpus):
+                # spark.executor.resource.gpu.amount=spark.task.resource.gpu.amount "
+                # results in only 1 task running at a time, which may cause perf issue.
+                return True
+
+            # We can enable stage-level scheduling
+            return False
+
+        # CPU training doesn't require stage-level scheduling
+        return True
+
+    def _try_stage_level_scheduling(self, rdd: RDD) -> RDD:
+        """Try to enable stage-level scheduling"""
+
+        if self._skip_stage_level_scheduling():
+            return rdd
+
+        ss = _get_spark_session()
+
+        # executor_cores will not be None
+        executor_cores = ss.sparkContext.getConf().get("spark.executor.cores")
+        assert executor_cores is not None
+
+        # Spark-rapids is a project to leverage GPUs to accelerate spark SQL.
+        # If spark-rapids is enabled, to avoid GPU OOM, we don't allow other
+        # ETL gpu tasks running alongside training tasks.
+        spark_plugins = ss.conf.get("spark.plugins", " ")
+        assert spark_plugins is not None
+        spark_rapids_sql_enabled = ss.conf.get("spark.rapids.sql.enabled", "true")
+        assert spark_rapids_sql_enabled is not None
+
+        task_cores = (
+            int(executor_cores)
+            if "com.nvidia.spark.SQLPlugin" in spark_plugins
+            and "true" == spark_rapids_sql_enabled.lower()
+            else (int(executor_cores) // 2) + 1
+        )
+
+        # Each training task requires cpu cores > total executor cores//2 + 1 which can
+        # make sure the tasks be sent to different executors.
+        #
+        # Please note that we can't use GPU to limit the concurrent tasks because of
+        # https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-45527.
+
+        task_gpus = 1.0
+        treqs = TaskResourceRequests().cpus(task_cores).resource("gpu", task_gpus)
+        rp = ResourceProfileBuilder().require(treqs).build
+
+        self.logger.info(
+            "XGBoost training tasks require the resource(cores=%s, gpu=%s).",
+            task_cores,
+            task_gpus,
+        )
+        return rdd.withResources(rp)
+
     def _fit(self, dataset: DataFrame) -> "_SparkXGBModel":
         # pylint: disable=too-many-statements, too-many-locals
         self._validate_params()
@@ -994,14 +1110,16 @@ def _train_booster(
                 )
 
         def _run_job() -> Tuple[str, str]:
-            ret = (
+            rdd = (
                 dataset.mapInPandas(
-                    _train_booster, schema="config string, booster string"  # type: ignore
+                    _train_booster,  # type: ignore
+                    schema="config string, booster string",
                 )
                 .rdd.barrier()
                 .mapPartitions(lambda x: x)
-                .collect()[0]
             )
+            rdd_with_resource = self._try_stage_level_scheduling(rdd)
+            ret = rdd_with_resource.collect()[0]
             return ret[0], ret[1]
 
         get_logger("XGBoost-PySpark").info(

python-package/xgboost/spark/utils.py

@@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ def _is_local(spark_context: SparkContext) -> bool:
     return spark_context._jsc.sc().isLocal()
 
 
+def _is_standalone_or_localcluster(spark_context: SparkContext) -> bool:
+    master = spark_context.getConf().get("spark.master")
+    return master is not None and (
+        master.startswith("spark://") or master.startswith("local-cluster")
+    )
+
+
 def _get_gpu_id(task_context: TaskContext) -> int:
     """Get the gpu id from the task resources"""
     if task_context is None: