From: Zhi <5145158+zhiics@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:13:35 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [relay][vm] Reuse allocated device memory (#4170)
X-Git-Tag: upstream/0.7.0~1755
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a17707089fd0fb23d482d8e3efcd965b7ccdf5d;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Ftvm.git

[relay][vm] Reuse allocated device memory (#4170)
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diff --git a/include/tvm/runtime/vm.h b/include/tvm/runtime/vm.h
index 7d2df0b..ee973cb 100644
--- a/include/tvm/runtime/vm.h
+++ b/include/tvm/runtime/vm.h
@@ -747,6 +747,12 @@ class VirtualMachine : public runtime::ModuleNode {
 
   /*! \brief The parameter name to data mapping. */
   std::unordered_map<std::string, ObjectRef> params_;
+
+  /*!
+   * \brief The constant pool for runtime. It caches the device dependent
+   * object to avoid rellocation of constants during inference.
+   */
+  std::vector<ObjectRef> const_pool_;
 };
 
 }  // namespace vm
diff --git a/src/runtime/vm/vm.cc b/src/runtime/vm/vm.cc
index fd5ff64..ab0e062 100644
--- a/src/runtime/vm/vm.cc
+++ b/src/runtime/vm/vm.cc
@@ -795,9 +795,18 @@ void VirtualMachine::RunLoop() {
       }
       case Opcode::LoadConst: {
         auto constant_obj = exec->constants[instr.const_index];
-        // TODO(wweic) ctx could be obtained from the ctxs list.
-        auto device_obj = CopyTo(constant_obj, ctxs[0]);
-        WriteRegister(instr.dst, device_obj);
+        // We cache the allocated object in the constant pool. To measure, the
+        // first iteration will set the pool up. The other iterations will
+        // directly reuse the allocated objects.
+        if (const_pool_.size() <= static_cast<size_t>(instr.const_index)) {
+          const_pool_.resize(instr.const_index + 1);
+        }
+
+        if (!const_pool_[instr.const_index].defined()) {
+          // TODO(wweic) ctx could be obtained from the ctxs list.
+          const_pool_[instr.const_index] = CopyTo(constant_obj, ctxs[0]);
+        }
+        WriteRegister(instr.dst, const_pool_[instr.const_index]);
         pc++;
         goto main_loop;
       }