Unify SymIntNode and SymFloatNode into SymNode (#87817)
This refactor was prompted by challenges handling mixed int/float
operations in C++. A previous version of this patch
added overloads for each permutation of int/float and was unwieldy
https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/87722/ This PR takes a different
approach.
The general outline of the patch is to combine the C++ types SymIntNode
and SymFloatNode into a single type, SymNode. This is type erased; we
no longer know statically at C++ if we have an int/float and have to test
it with the is_int()/is_float() virtual methods. This has a number of
knock on effects.
- We no longer have C++ classes to bind to Python. Instead, we take an
entirely new approach to our Python API, where we have a SymInt/SymFloat
class defined entirely in Python, which hold a SymNode (which corresponds
to the C++ SymNode). However, SymNode is not pybind11-bound; instead,
it lives as-is in Python, and is wrapped into C++ SymNode using PythonSymNode
when it goes into C++. This implies a userland rename.
In principle, it is also possible for the canonical implementation of SymNode
to be written in C++, and then bound to Python with pybind11 (we have
this code, although it is commented out.) However, I did not implement
this as we currently have no C++ implementations of SymNode.
Because we do return SymInt/SymFloat from C++ bindings, the C++ binding
code needs to know how to find these classes. Currently, this is done
just by manually importing torch and getting the attributes.
- Because SymInt/SymFloat are easy Python wrappers, __sym_dispatch__ now
takes SymInt/SymFloat, rather than SymNode, bringing it in line with how
__torch_dispatch__ works.
Some miscellaneous improvements:
- SymInt now has a constructor that takes SymNode. Note that this
constructor is ambiguous if you pass in a subclass of SymNode,
so an explicit downcast is necessary. This means toSymFloat/toSymInt
are no more. This is a mild optimization as it means rvalue reference
works automatically.
- We uniformly use the caster for c10::SymInt/SymFloat, rather than
going the long way via the SymIntNode/SymFloatNode.
- Removed some unnecessary toSymInt/toSymFloat calls in normalize_*
functions, pretty sure this doesn't do anything.
- guard_int is now a free function, since to guard on an int you cannot
assume the method exists. A function can handle both int and SymInt
inputs.
- We clean up the magic method definition code for SymInt/SymFloat/SymNode.
ONLY the user classes (SymInt/SymFloat) get magic methods; SymNode gets
plain methods; this is to help avoid confusion between the two types.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@fb.com>
cc @jansel @mlazos @soumith @voznesenskym @yanboliang @penguinwu @anijain2305
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/87817
Approved by: https://github.com/albanD, https://github.com/anjali411
