Make Device.set_current()
faster
#781
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Description
Still WIP.
closes #739
Before this PR:
With this PR:
We want to minimize the number of calls to CUDA APIs, which add up to the overheads (several hundreds of nanoseconds per call). This is achieved by combining two changes:
cudaDeviceReset()
somewhere, in which case the pointers to the primary contests would be invalidated and become dangling. However, the CUDA team strongly discourages using this API (it does not solve any real issue, e.g. restoring from sticky errors), and it is impossible to get things right especially in the Python land if it is called. Too many CUDA-related objects floating around.Checklist