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Avoid non-blocking GPU->CPU copies. #11288

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@edpizzi edpizzi commented Dec 31, 2021

Non-blocking GPU->CPU transfers can create race windows where tensor contents are observed to have incorrect values.

Fixes #11287. See #11287 for detailed mechanics of the issue this resolves.

Verified that this change fixes the behavior in the reproduce script from #11287.

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Fixing: yes. Root causing the bug: no. It's subtle, and many log statements you add to debug the issue fix the issue (by observing the value of GPU tensors, forcing a CUDA sync), which is frustrating if you don't know that this is the nature of the issue.

I also had some trouble getting tests to run in my environment. It looks to me like some tests fail in GPU environments but pass in non-GPU environments. Others fail when run on slurm environments, which is the only way I can easily access GPUs.

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