[Issue]: Creating two HIP streams causes 100% GPU utilization

[Anton Smirnov]

Problem Description

Creating two HIP streams causes 100% GPU utilization.
This is observed on ROCm 5.7-6.0 and on RX 7600, RX 7800 XT and RX 7900 XTX (at least).

Here's the utilization graph using resources during the execution of C++ MWE below (this is observed with rocm-smi as well):

Operating System

Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

CPU

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor

GPU

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

ROCm Version

ROCm 6.0.0

Steps to Reproduce

C++ MWE:

#include <hip/hip_runtime.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <thread>

using namespace std;

void check(int res) {
    if (res != 0) {
        std::cerr << "Fail" << std::endl;
    }
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    hipStream_t s1;
    check(hipStreamCreateWithPriority(&s1, 0, 0));

    hipStream_t s2;
    check(hipStreamCreateWithPriority(&s2, 0, 0));

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::seconds(5));
    return 0;
}

Compile with hipcc main.cpp & run a.out and observe utilization during program execution.

[Jatin Chaudhary]

I could not reproduce it on Navi21(6900 XT).

rocm-smi reads the data from the driver to populate percent usage. Will forward this to relevant teams to get more information.

[Anton Smirnov]

This looks to be a Navi 3 issue. I was also not able to reproduce it on RX6700 XT.

[Anton Smirnov]

If this is not a monitoring bug, it might partially explain, why we are seeing random hangs in our AMDGPU.jl CI only with Navi 3, because tests run on multiple workers using multiple streams.

[Anton Smirnov]

Hi! Just curious if there's any update on the issue?

[Jatin Chaudhary]

Nothing as of now. I will update here once we have a solution.

[Anton Smirnov]

This issue seems to be fixed with ROCm 6.0.2 & Linux 6.5.0-18.
Not sure from where the fix came though.