[Experimental] Add memory recording which can then be bulk-freed #698
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Add memory recording which can then be bulk-freed.
Because GC is not aware of GPU memory and relying on it leads to significantly higher memory usage and big delays, the idead is to record all device-allocations that happen during
AMDGPU.record_memory!(true)
and when
AMDGPU.record_memory!(false)
is set - bulk-free them.This is useful for example in DL scenarios where you have your model parameters and compute gradients and update them in-place and once you did this, all of the intermediate allocations can be immediately freed.
Additionally, you can remove array from recording with
AMDGPU.remove_record!(x)
or disabling recording for that allocation withAMDGPU.record_memory!(false; free=false)
(just remember to enable it again).Example of memory usage with GaussianSplatting.jl: