[ci][distributed] fix device count call

[ci][distributed] fix some cuda init that makes it necessary to use spawn (#5991)

.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml

@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@ steps:
   num_gpus: 2
   commands:
   - bash ../.buildkite/download-images.sh
-  # FIXIT: find out which code initialize cuda before running the test
-  # before the fix, we need to use spawn to test it
-  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
   - VLLM_TEST_SAME_HOST=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_same_node.py
   - TEST_DIST_MODEL=facebook/opt-125m DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=ray pytest -v -s distributed/test_basic_distributed_correctness.py
   - TEST_DIST_MODEL=meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=ray pytest -v -s distributed/test_basic_distributed_correctness.py
@@ -60,8 +57,7 @@ steps:
   - TEST_DIST_MODEL=facebook/opt-125m DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=mp pytest -v -s distributed/test_chunked_prefill_distributed.py
   - TEST_DIST_MODEL=meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=mp pytest -v -s distributed/test_chunked_prefill_distributed.py
   - TEST_DIST_MODEL=llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=mp pytest -v -s distributed/test_multimodal_broadcast.py
-  # FIXIT: find out why TP is failing with mp backend on phi3-v 
-  # - TEST_DIST_MODEL=microsoft/Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=mp pytest -v -s distributed/test_multimodal_broadcast.py
+  - TEST_DIST_MODEL=microsoft/Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=mp pytest -v -s distributed/test_multimodal_broadcast.py
   - pytest -v -s spec_decode/e2e/test_integration_dist_tp2.py
   - CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 pytest -v -s test_sharded_state_loader.py
   - CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 pytest -v -s distributed/test_utils.py
@@ -71,9 +67,6 @@ steps:
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
   num_gpus: 4
   commands:
-  # FIXIT: find out which code initialize cuda before running the test
-  # before the fix, we need to use spawn to test it
-  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_pynccl.py
   # We want to test that models which use 2 GPUs work with 4 GPUs, which is why we duplicate them here.
   # See https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/5473#issuecomment-2166601837 for context.
@@ -225,9 +218,6 @@ steps:
   gpu: a100
   num_gpus: 4
   commands: 
-  # FIXIT: find out which code initialize cuda before running the test
-  # before the fix, we need to use spawn to test it
-  - export VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
   # NOTE: don't test llama model here, it seems hf implementation is buggy
   # see https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/5689 for details
   - pytest -v -s distributed/test_custom_all_reduce.py

tests/conftest.py

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ from collections import UserList
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from functools import cached_property
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import (Any, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, Tuple, TypedDict,
-                    TypeVar)
+from typing import (TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Literal, Optional, Tuple,
+                    TypedDict, TypeVar)
 
 import pytest
 import torch
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import torch.nn as nn
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 from PIL import Image
 from transformers import (AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoModelForVision2Seq,
-                          AutoProcessor, AutoTokenizer, BatchEncoding)
+                          AutoTokenizer, BatchEncoding)
 
 from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
 from vllm.config import TokenizerPoolConfig, VisionLanguageConfig
@@ -22,8 +22,12 @@ from vllm.distributed import (destroy_distributed_environment,
                               destroy_model_parallel)
 from vllm.inputs import TextPrompt
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
-from vllm.multimodal import MultiModalData
-from vllm.multimodal.image import ImageFeatureData, ImagePixelData
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from vllm.multimodal import MultiModalData
+else:
+    # it will call torch.cuda.device_count()
+    MultiModalData = None
 from vllm.sequence import SampleLogprobs
 from vllm.utils import cuda_device_count_stateless, is_cpu
 
@@ -63,6 +67,10 @@ class ImageAsset:
         return self.pil_image
 
     def for_vllm(self, vision_config: VisionLanguageConfig) -> MultiModalData:
+        # don't put this import at the top level
+        # it will call torch.cuda.device_count()
+        from vllm.multimodal.image import ImageFeatureData  # noqa: F401
+        from vllm.multimodal.image import ImagePixelData
         image_input_type = vision_config.image_input_type
         ImageInputType = VisionLanguageConfig.ImageInputType
 
@@ -216,6 +224,9 @@ class HfRunner:
         )
 
         try:
+            # don't put this import at the top level
+            # it will call torch.cuda.device_count()
+            from transformers import AutoProcessor  # noqa: F401
             self.processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
                 model_name,
                 torch_dtype=torch_dtype,

tests/distributed/test_basic_distributed_correctness.py

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ TEST_DIST_MODEL=meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf \
 import os
 
 import pytest
-import torch
+
+from vllm.utils import cuda_device_count_stateless
 
 from ..models.utils import check_outputs_equal
 
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ MODELS = [
 DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND = "DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND"
 
 
-@pytest.mark.skipif(torch.cuda.device_count() < 2,
+@pytest.mark.skipif(cuda_device_count_stateless() < 2,
                     reason="Need at least 2 GPUs to run the test.")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model", MODELS)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", ["half"])
@@ -40,9 +41,10 @@ def test_models(
 ) -> None:
     distributed_executor_backend = os.getenv(DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND)
 
-    with hf_runner(model, dtype=dtype) as hf_model:
-        hf_outputs = hf_model.generate_greedy(example_prompts, max_tokens)
-
+    # NOTE: take care of the order. run vLLM first, and then run HF.
+    # vLLM needs a fresh new process without cuda initialization.
+    # if we run HF first, the cuda initialization will be done and it
+    # will hurt multiprocessing backend with fork method (the default method).
     with vllm_runner(model,
                      dtype=dtype,
                      tensor_parallel_size=2,
@@ -50,6 +52,9 @@ def test_models(
                      ) as vllm_model:
         vllm_outputs = vllm_model.generate_greedy(example_prompts, max_tokens)
 
+    with hf_runner(model, dtype=dtype) as hf_model:
+        hf_outputs = hf_model.generate_greedy(example_prompts, max_tokens)
+
     check_outputs_equal(
         outputs_0_lst=hf_outputs,
         outputs_1_lst=vllm_outputs,

tests/distributed/test_chunked_prefill_distributed.py

@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ TEST_DIST_MODEL=meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf \
 import os
 
 import pytest
-import torch
+
+from vllm.utils import cuda_device_count_stateless
 
 from ..models.utils import check_outputs_equal
 
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ MODELS = [
 DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND = "DISTRIBUTED_EXECUTOR_BACKEND"
 
 
-@pytest.mark.skipif(torch.cuda.device_count() < 2,
+@pytest.mark.skipif(cuda_device_count_stateless() < 2,
                     reason="Need at least 2 GPUs to run the test.")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model", MODELS)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", ["half"])
@@ -47,8 +48,10 @@ def test_models(
     enable_chunked_prefill = True
     max_num_batched_tokens = chunked_prefill_token_size
 
-    with hf_runner(model, dtype=dtype) as hf_model:
-        hf_outputs = hf_model.generate_greedy(example_prompts, max_tokens)
+    # NOTE: take care of the order. run vLLM first, and then run HF.
+    # vLLM needs a fresh new process without cuda initialization.
+    # if we run HF first, the cuda initialization will be done and it
+    # will hurt multiprocessing backend with fork method (the default method).
 
     with vllm_runner(
             model,
@@ -61,6 +64,9 @@ def test_models(
     ) as vllm_model:
         vllm_outputs = vllm_model.generate_greedy(example_prompts, max_tokens)
 
+    with hf_runner(model, dtype=dtype) as hf_model:
+        hf_outputs = hf_model.generate_greedy(example_prompts, max_tokens)
+
     check_outputs_equal(
         outputs_0_lst=hf_outputs,
         outputs_1_lst=vllm_outputs,

tests/models/test_llava.py

@@ -88,17 +88,11 @@ def run_test(
     """
     model_id, vlm_config = model_and_config
     hf_images = [asset.for_hf() for asset in image_assets]
-    vllm_images = [asset.for_vllm(vlm_config) for asset in image_assets]
 
-    with hf_runner(model_id, dtype=dtype, is_vision_model=True) as hf_model:
-        hf_outputs = hf_model.generate_greedy(HF_IMAGE_PROMPTS,
-                                              max_tokens,
-                                              images=hf_images)
-
-    vllm_image_prompts = [
-        p.replace("<image>", "<image>" * vlm_config.image_feature_size)
-        for p in HF_IMAGE_PROMPTS
-    ]
+    # NOTE: take care of the order. run vLLM first, and then run HF.
+    # vLLM needs a fresh new process without cuda initialization.
+    # if we run HF first, the cuda initialization will be done and it
+    # will hurt multiprocessing backend with fork method (the default method).
 
     with vllm_runner(model_id,
                      dtype=dtype,
@@ -106,10 +100,26 @@ def run_test(
                      distributed_executor_backend=distributed_executor_backend,
                      enforce_eager=True,
                      **vlm_config.as_cli_args_dict()) as vllm_model:
+
+        # NOTE: `asset.for_vllm` will call `torch.cuda.device_count()`
+        # we must put it inside the vllm_runner context manager
+        # i.e. after creating vLLM instance.
+        vllm_images = [asset.for_vllm(vlm_config) for asset in image_assets]
+
+        vllm_image_prompts = [
+            p.replace("<image>", "<image>" * vlm_config.image_feature_size)
+            for p in HF_IMAGE_PROMPTS
+        ]
+
         vllm_outputs = vllm_model.generate_greedy(vllm_image_prompts,
                                                   max_tokens,
                                                   images=vllm_images)
 
+    with hf_runner(model_id, dtype=dtype, is_vision_model=True) as hf_model:
+        hf_outputs = hf_model.generate_greedy(HF_IMAGE_PROMPTS,
+                                              max_tokens,
+                                              images=hf_images)
+
     check_outputs_equal(
         hf_outputs,
         [

tests/models/test_phi3v.py

@@ -96,23 +96,11 @@ def run_test(
     """
     model_id, vlm_config = model_and_config
     hf_images = [asset.for_hf() for asset in image_assets]
-    vllm_images = [asset.for_vllm(vlm_config) for asset in image_assets]
 
-    # use eager mode for hf runner, since phi3_v didn't work with flash_attn
-    hf_model_kwargs = {"_attn_implementation": "eager"}
-    with hf_runner(model_id, dtype=dtype,
-                   model_kwargs=hf_model_kwargs) as hf_model:
-        hf_outputs = hf_model.generate_greedy(
-            HF_IMAGE_PROMPTS,
-            max_tokens,
-            images=hf_images,
-            eos_token_id=hf_model.processor.tokenizer.eos_token_id)
-
-    vllm_image_prompts = [
-        p.replace("<|image_1|>",
-                  "<|image|>" * vlm_config.image_feature_size + "<s>")
-        for p in HF_IMAGE_PROMPTS
-    ]
+    # NOTE: take care of the order. run vLLM first, and then run HF.
+    # vLLM needs a fresh new process without cuda initialization.
+    # if we run HF first, the cuda initialization will be done and it
+    # will hurt multiprocessing backend with fork method (the default method).
 
     with vllm_runner(model_id,
                      max_model_len=2048,
@@ -121,10 +109,32 @@ def run_test(
                      enforce_eager=True,
                      distributed_executor_backend=distributed_executor_backend,
                      **vlm_config.as_cli_args_dict()) as vllm_model:
+        # NOTE: `asset.for_vllm` will call `torch.cuda.device_count()`
+        # we must put it inside the vllm_runner context manager
+        # i.e. after creating vLLM instance.
+
+        vllm_images = [asset.for_vllm(vlm_config) for asset in image_assets]
+
+        vllm_image_prompts = [
+            p.replace("<|image_1|>",
+                      "<|image|>" * vlm_config.image_feature_size + "<s>")
+            for p in HF_IMAGE_PROMPTS
+        ]
+
         vllm_outputs = vllm_model.generate_greedy(vllm_image_prompts,
                                                   max_tokens,
                                                   images=vllm_images)
 
+    # use eager mode for hf runner, since phi3_v didn't work with flash_attn
+    hf_model_kwargs = {"_attn_implementation": "eager"}
+    with hf_runner(model_id, dtype=dtype,
+                   model_kwargs=hf_model_kwargs) as hf_model:
+        hf_outputs = hf_model.generate_greedy(
+            HF_IMAGE_PROMPTS,
+            max_tokens,
+            images=hf_images,
+            eos_token_id=hf_model.processor.tokenizer.eos_token_id)
+
     check_outputs_equal(
         hf_outputs,
         [