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On a GB10 (cc 12.1) machine, loading weights using NunchakuFluxTransformer2dModel.from_pretrained(...) takes approximately 37 seconds, while on a 3090 machine it takes approximately 3 seconds.
The profiler display time is almost entirely consumed by numerous cudaMemcpyAsync operations (approximately 2400+ small block copies). Typically, small blocks are moved from the CPU to the GPU memory path, amplifying the fixed overhead of each copy.
Modifications
Solution (How to Locate and Fix)
Location: H2D bandwidth testing confirmed the link was normal (pinned H2D was very high).
The "small copy" experiment verified that the difference between pageable and pinned was ~50×.
The loading logic was found in nunchaku/models/transformers/transformer_flux.py::from_pretrained: load_file(...) first reads the weights into the CPU tensor, then triggers a large number of H2D copies.
Fix: Added a _pin_state_dict(...) helper to perform pin_memory() on the CPU tensors in quantized_part_sd and unquantized_part_sd.
Added a pin_memory switch (default True) to from_pretrained(), enabling it only when device.type == "cuda".
Results (actual test): Loading profiling time decreased from ~37.5s Self CPU time to ~3.9s.
Self CUDA time decreased to the ~154ms range.
Conclusion: This patch is a performance fix, significantly reducing the overhead of "CPU→GPU small block transport during the weight loading phase".
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Motivation
On a GB10 (cc 12.1) machine, loading weights using
NunchakuFluxTransformer2dModel.from_pretrained(...)takes approximately 37 seconds, while on a 3090 machine it takes approximately 3 seconds.The profiler display time is almost entirely consumed by numerous
cudaMemcpyAsyncoperations (approximately 2400+ small block copies). Typically, small blocks are moved from the CPU to the GPU memory path, amplifying the fixed overhead of each copy.Modifications
Solution (How to Locate and Fix)
Location: H2D bandwidth testing confirmed the link was normal (pinned H2D was very high).
The "small copy" experiment verified that the difference between pageable and pinned was ~50×.
The loading logic was found in nunchaku/models/transformers/transformer_flux.py::from_pretrained: load_file(...) first reads the weights into the CPU tensor, then triggers a large number of H2D copies.
Fix: Added a _pin_state_dict(...) helper to perform pin_memory() on the CPU tensors in quantized_part_sd and unquantized_part_sd.
Added a pin_memory switch (default True) to from_pretrained(), enabling it only when device.type == "cuda".
Results (actual test): Loading profiling time decreased from ~37.5s Self CPU time to ~3.9s.
Self CUDA time decreased to the ~154ms range.
Conclusion: This patch is a performance fix, significantly reducing the overhead of "CPU→GPU small block transport during the weight loading phase".