Commit 02896967 authored by Shilei Tian's avatar Shilei Tian
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[OpenMP] Introduce target memory manager

Target memory manager is introduced in this patch which aims to manage target
memory such that they will not be freed immediately when they are not used
because the overhead of memory allocation and free is very large. For CUDA
device, cuMemFree even blocks the context switch on device which affects
concurrent kernel execution.

The memory manager can be taken as a memory pool. It divides the pool into
multiple buckets according to the size such that memory allocation/free
distributed to different buckets will not affect each other.

In this version, we use the exact-equality policy to find a free buffer. This
is an open question: will best-fit work better here? IMO, best-fit is not good
for target memory management because computation on GPU usually requires GBs of
data. Best-fit might lead to a serious waste. For example, there is a free
buffer of size 1960MB, and now we need a buffer of size 1200MB. If best-fit,
the free buffer will be returned, leading to a 760...
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