[shortfin] Add heuristics for adjusting file descriptor limits on Linux.

Without this, on very large system (i.e. 64 GPU / 192 Core) systems, it was not possible to open all devices without manual tweaks to file handle descriptor limits. The result were various forms of RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED errors. This may require more tweaking in the future, and for fully robust setups, production installations should explicitly configure high limits. However, these heuristics remove a significant barrier to entry and provide some feedback in terms of logs.

Progress on #463

shortfin/src/shortfin/local/systems/amdgpu.cc

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include "shortfin/local/systems/amdgpu.h"
 
 #include "shortfin/support/logging.h"
+#include "shortfin/support/sysconfig.h"
 
 namespace shortfin::local::systems {
 
@@ -190,6 +191,22 @@ SystemPtr AMDGPUSystemBuilder::CreateSystem() {
     }
   }
 
+  // Estimate the resource requirements for the requested number of devices.
+  // As of 2024-11-08, the number of file handles required to open 64 device
+  // partitions was 31 times the number to open one device. Because it is not
+  // good to run near the limit, we conservatively round that up to 64 above
+  // an arbitrary baseline of 768. This means that on a small, four device
+  // system, we will not request to raise limits for the Linux default of
+  // 1024 file handles, but we will raise for everything larger (which tends
+  // to be where the problems are).
+  size_t expected_device_count =
+      used_device_ids.size() * logical_devices_per_physical_device_;
+  if (!sysconfig::EnsureFileLimit(expected_device_count * 64 + 768)) {
+    logging::error(
+        "Could not ensure sufficient file handles for minimum operations: "
+        "Suggest setting explicit limits with `ulimit -n` and system settings");
+  }
+
   // Initialize all used GPU devices.
   for (size_t instance_ordinal = 0; instance_ordinal < used_device_ids.size();
        ++instance_ordinal) {

shortfin/src/shortfin/local/systems/host.cc

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include "iree/hal/local/loaders/registration/init.h"
 #include "shortfin/support/iree_helpers.h"
 #include "shortfin/support/logging.h"
+#include "shortfin/support/sysconfig.h"
 
 namespace shortfin::local::systems {
 
@@ -149,6 +150,8 @@ iree_hal_driver_t *HostCPUSystemBuilder::InitializeHostCPUDriver(System &lsys) {
   }
 
   // Create one queue executor per node.
+  unsigned total_needed_file_handles = 512;
+  bool has_issued_limit_error = false;
   std::vector<iree::task_executor_ptr> queue_executors;
   queue_executors.reserve(selected_nodes.size());
   queue_node_ids_.reserve(selected_nodes.size());
@@ -162,6 +165,21 @@ iree_hal_driver_t *HostCPUSystemBuilder::InitializeHostCPUDriver(System &lsys) {
                    node_id, iree_task_topology_group_count(&topology.topology));
     queue_executors.push_back({});
     auto &executor = queue_executors.back();
+    // As of 2024-11-8, it took approximately 32 file handles per node-group.
+    // To be conservative because file handle limits are basically free, we
+    // round up to 64 and assume a floor of 512. This allows small, default
+    // 8 group, single node configs to require no limit increase for Linux
+    // 1024 default cases.
+    total_needed_file_handles += 64 * topology.topology.group_count;
+    if (!sysconfig::EnsureFileLimit(total_needed_file_handles) &&
+        !has_issued_limit_error) {
+      logging::error(
+          "Could not ensure sufficient file handles for minimum operations: "
+          "Suggest setting explicit limits with `ulimit -n` and system "
+          "settings");
+      has_issued_limit_error = true;
+    }
+
     SHORTFIN_THROW_IF_ERROR(iree_task_executor_create(
         host_cpu_deps_.task_executor_options, &topology.topology,
         host_allocator(), executor.for_output()));

shortfin/src/shortfin/support/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -16,12 +16,14 @@ shortfin_cc_component(
     iree_concurrency.h
     logging.h
     stl_extras.h
+    sysconfig.h
   SRCS
     blocking_executor.cc
     config.cc
     globals.cc
     iree_helpers.cc
     logging.cc
+    sysconfig.cc
   DEPS
     iree_base_base
     # TODO: Maybe reclassify some of these low level, shared support entities

shortfin/src/shortfin/support/sysconfig.cc

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+// Copyright 2024 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+
+#include "shortfin/support/sysconfig.h"
+
+#include "shortfin/support/logging.h"
+
+#ifdef __linux__
+#include <sys/resource.h>
+#endif
+
+namespace shortfin::sysconfig {
+
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// File handle limits
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#ifdef __linux__
+
+bool EnsureFileLimit(unsigned needed_limit) {
+  struct rlimit limit;
+  if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &limit) != 0) {
+    return {};
+  }
+
+  if (limit.rlim_cur >= needed_limit) return true;
+  unsigned requested_limit = needed_limit;
+  if (limit.rlim_max >= needed_limit) {
+    logging::debug(
+        "Estimated number of open file handles ({}) < current limit ({}) but "
+        "within max limit ({}): Increasing limit",
+        needed_limit, limit.rlim_cur, limit.rlim_max);
+  } else if (limit.rlim_max > limit.rlim_cur) {
+    logging::warn(
+        "Esimated number of open file handles ({}) < current ({}) and max ({}) "
+        "limit: Increasing to max",
+        needed_limit, limit.rlim_cur, limit.rlim_max);
+    requested_limit = limit.rlim_max;
+  } else {
+    logging::warn("Esimated number of open file handles ({}) < max ({})",
+                  needed_limit, limit.rlim_max);
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  limit.rlim_cur = requested_limit;
+  if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &limit) != 0) {
+    logging::error("Could not set open file handle limit to {}",
+                   requested_limit);
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return limit.rlim_cur >= needed_limit;
+}
+
+#else
+// Fallback implementation.
+bool EnsureFileLimit(unsigned needed_limit) { return true; }
+#endif
+
+}  // namespace shortfin::sysconfig

shortfin/src/shortfin/support/sysconfig.h

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+// Copyright 2024 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+
+#ifndef SHORTFIN_SUPPORT_SYSCONFIG_H
+#define SHORTFIN_SUPPORT_SYSCONFIG_H
+
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <utility>
+
+namespace shortfin::sysconfig {
+
+// Attempts to ensure that the given number of file descriptors can be created.
+// If the system does not support such a thing (i.e. GetOpenFileLimit() returns
+// nothing), then nothing is done and true is returned. If the system does
+// support it and heuristics say this should be allowed, then true will return.
+// Otherwise, a warning will be logged and false returned.
+// This is a best effort attempt.
+bool EnsureFileLimit(unsigned needed_limit);
+
+}  // namespace shortfin::sysconfig
+
+#endif  // SHORTFIN_SUPPORT_SYSCONFIG_H