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#ifndef TENSORFLOW_CORE_KERNELS_BATCHING_UTIL_BASIC_BATCH_SCHEDULER_H_
#define TENSORFLOW_CORE_KERNELS_BATCHING_UTIL_BASIC_BATCH_SCHEDULER_H_

#include <stddef.h>
#include <cstddef>
#include <functional>
#include <memory>
#include <string>

#include "tensorflow/core/kernels/batching_util/shared_batch_scheduler.h"

namespace tensorflow {
namespace serving {

// A BatchScheduler implementation geared toward handling a single request type
// running on a specific set of hardware resources. A typical scenario is one in
// which all requests invoke the same machine-learned model on one GPU.
//
// If there are, say, two GPUs and two models each bound to one of the GPUs, one
// could use two BasicBatchScheduler instances to schedule the two model/GPU
// combinations independently. If multiple models must share a given GPU or
// other hardware resource, consider using SharedBatchScheduler instead.
//
//
// PARAMETERS AND BEHAVIOR:
//
// BasicBatchScheduler runs a fixed pool of threads, which it uses to process
// batches of tasks. It enforces a maximum batch size, and enqueues a bounded
// number of tasks. If the queue is nearly empty, such that a full batch cannot
// be formed, when a thread becomes free, it anyway schedules a batch
// immediately if a task has been in the queue for longer than a given timeout
// parameter. If the timeout parameter is set to 0, then the batch threads will
// always be kept busy (unless there are zero tasks waiting to be processed).
//
// For online serving, it is recommended to set the maximum number of enqueued
// batches worth of tasks equal to the number of batch threads, which allows
// enqueuing of enough tasks s.t. if every thread becomes available it can be
// kept busy, but no more. For bulk processing jobs and throughput-oriented
// benchmarks, you may want to set it much higher.
//
// When Schedule() is called, if the queue is full the call will fail with an
// UNAVAILABLE error (after which the client may retry again later). If the call
// succeeds, the maximum time the task will spend in the queue before being
// placed in a batch and assigned to a thread for processing, is the greater of:
//  - the maximum time to process ceil(max_enqueued_batches/num_batch_threads)
//    (1 in the recommended configuration) batches of previously-submitted tasks
//  - the configured timeout parameter (which can be 0, as mentioned above)
//
// Unlike StreamingBatchScheduler, when BasicBatchScheduler assigns a batch to a
// thread, it closes the batch. The process-batch callback may assume that every
// batch it receives is closed at the outset.
//
//
// RECOMMENDED USE-CASES:
//
// BasicBatchScheduler is suitable for use-cases that feature a single kind of
// request (e.g. a server performing inference with a single machine-learned
// model, possibly evolving over time), with loose versioning semantics.
// Concretely, the following conditions should hold:
//
//  A. All requests batched onto a given resource (e.g. a hardware accelerator,
//     or a pool accelerators) are of the same type. For example, they all
//     invoke the same machine-learned model.
//
//     These variations are permitted:
//      - The model may reside in a single servable, or it may be spread across
//        multiple servables that are used in unison (e.g. a vocabulary lookup
//        table servable and a tensorflow session servable).
//      - The model's servable(s) may be static, or they may evolve over time
//        (successive servable versions).
//      - Zero or more of the servables are used in the request thread; the rest
//        are used in the batch thread. In our running example, the vocabulary
//        lookups and tensorflow runs may both be performed in the batch thread,
//        or alternatively the vocabulary lookup may occur in the request thread
//        with only the tensorflow run performed in the batch thread.
//
//     In contrast, BasicBatchScheduler is not a good fit if the server
//     hosts multiple distinct models running on a pool accelerators, with each
//     request specifying which model it wants to use. BasicBatchScheduler
//     has no facility to time-multiplex the batch threads across multiple
//     models in a principled way. More basically, it cannot ensure that a given
//     batch doesn't contain a mixture of requests for different models.
//
//  B. Requests do not specify a particular version of the servable(s) that must
//     be used. Instead, each request is content to use the "latest" version.
//
//     BasicBatchScheduler does not constrain which requests get grouped
//     together into a batch, so using this scheduler there is no way to achieve
//     cohesion of versioned requests to version-specific batches.
//
//  C. No servable version coordination needs to be performed between the
//     request threads and the batch threads. Often, servables are only used in
//     the batch threads, in which case this condition trivially holds. If
//     servables are used in both threads, then the use-case must tolerate
//     version skew across the servables used in the two kinds of threads.
//
//
// EXAMPLE USE-CASE FLOW:
//
// For such use-cases, request processing via BasicBatchScheduler generally
// follows this flow (given for illustration; variations are possible):
//  1. Optionally perform some pre-processing on each request in the request
//     threads.
//  2. Route the requests to the batch scheduler, as batching::Task objects.
//     (Since all requests are of the same type and are not versioned, the
//     scheduler is free to group them into batches arbitrarily.)
//  3. Merge the requests into a single batched representation B.
//  4. Obtain handles to the servable(s) needed to process B. The simplest
//     approach is to obtain the latest version of each servable. Alternatively,
//     if cross-servable consistency is required (e.g. the vocabulary lookup
//     table's version number must match that of the tensorflow session),
//     identify an appropriate version number and obtain the servable handles
//     accordingly.
//  5. Process B using the obtained servable handles, and split the result into
//     individual per-request units.
//  6. Perform any post-processing in the batch thread and/or request thread.
//
//
// PERFORMANCE TUNING: See README.md.
//
template <typename TaskType>
class BasicBatchScheduler : public BatchScheduler<TaskType> {
 public:
  // TODO(b/25089730): Tune defaults based on best practices as they develop.
  // (Keep them mirrored to the ones in SharedBatchScheduler::QueueOptions and
  // SharedBatchScheduler::Options.)
  struct Options {
    // The maximum size of each batch.
    //
    // The scheduler may form batches of any size between 1 and this number
    // (inclusive). If there is a need to quantize the batch sizes, i.e. only
    // submit batches whose size is in a small set of allowed sizes, that can be
    // done by adding padding in the process-batch callback.
    int max_batch_size = 1000;

    // If a task has been enqueued for this amount of time (in microseconds),
    // and a thread is available, the scheduler will immediately form a batch
    // from enqueued tasks and assign the batch to the thread for processing,
    // even if the batch's size is below 'max_batch_size'.
    //
    // This parameter offers a way to bound queue latency, so that a task isn't
    // stuck in the queue indefinitely waiting for enough tasks to arrive to
    // make a full batch. (The latency bound is given in the class documentation
    // above.)
    //
    // The goal is to smooth out batch sizes under low request rates, and thus
    // avoid latency spikes.
    int64 batch_timeout_micros = 0;

    // The name to use for the pool of batch threads.
    string thread_pool_name = {"batch_threads"};

    // The number of threads to use to process batches.
    // Must be >= 1, and should be tuned carefully.
    int num_batch_threads = port::NumSchedulableCPUs();

    // The maximum allowable number of enqueued (accepted by Schedule() but
    // not yet being processed on a batch thread) tasks in terms of batches.
    // If this limit is reached, Schedule() will return an UNAVAILABLE error.
    // See the class documentation above for guidelines on how to tune this
    // parameter.
    int max_enqueued_batches = 10;

    // The following options are typically only overridden by test code.

    // The environment to use.
    Env* env = Env::Default();
  };
  static Status Create(const Options& options,
                       std::function<void(std::unique_ptr<Batch<TaskType>>)>
                           process_batch_callback,
                       std::unique_ptr<BasicBatchScheduler>* scheduler);

  ~BasicBatchScheduler() override = default;

  Status Schedule(std::unique_ptr<TaskType>* task) override;
  size_t NumEnqueuedTasks() const override;
  size_t SchedulingCapacity() const override;

  size_t max_task_size() const override {
    return shared_scheduler_queue_->max_task_size();
  }

 private:
  explicit BasicBatchScheduler(
      std::unique_ptr<BatchScheduler<TaskType>> shared_scheduler_queue);

  // This class is merely a thin wrapper around a SharedBatchScheduler with a
  // single queue.
  std::unique_ptr<BatchScheduler<TaskType>> shared_scheduler_queue_;

  TF_DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(BasicBatchScheduler);
};

//////////
// Implementation details follow. API users need not read.

template <typename TaskType>
Status BasicBatchScheduler<TaskType>::Create(
    const Options& options,
    std::function<void(std::unique_ptr<Batch<TaskType>>)>
        process_batch_callback,
    std::unique_ptr<BasicBatchScheduler>* scheduler) {
  typename SharedBatchScheduler<TaskType>::Options shared_scheduler_options;
  shared_scheduler_options.thread_pool_name = options.thread_pool_name;
  shared_scheduler_options.num_batch_threads = options.num_batch_threads;
  shared_scheduler_options.env = options.env;
  std::shared_ptr<SharedBatchScheduler<TaskType>> shared_scheduler;
  TF_RETURN_IF_ERROR(SharedBatchScheduler<TaskType>::Create(
      shared_scheduler_options, &shared_scheduler));

  typename SharedBatchScheduler<TaskType>::QueueOptions
      shared_scheduler_queue_options;
  shared_scheduler_queue_options.max_batch_size = options.max_batch_size;
  shared_scheduler_queue_options.batch_timeout_micros =
      options.batch_timeout_micros;
  shared_scheduler_queue_options.max_enqueued_batches =
      options.max_enqueued_batches;
  std::unique_ptr<BatchScheduler<TaskType>> shared_scheduler_queue;
  TF_RETURN_IF_ERROR(shared_scheduler->AddQueue(shared_scheduler_queue_options,
                                                process_batch_callback,
                                                &shared_scheduler_queue));

  scheduler->reset(
      new BasicBatchScheduler<TaskType>(std::move(shared_scheduler_queue)));
  return Status::OK();
}

template <typename TaskType>
Status BasicBatchScheduler<TaskType>::Schedule(
    std::unique_ptr<TaskType>* task) {
  return shared_scheduler_queue_->Schedule(task);
}

template <typename TaskType>
size_t BasicBatchScheduler<TaskType>::NumEnqueuedTasks() const {
  return shared_scheduler_queue_->NumEnqueuedTasks();
}

template <typename TaskType>
size_t BasicBatchScheduler<TaskType>::SchedulingCapacity() const {
  return shared_scheduler_queue_->SchedulingCapacity();
}

template <typename TaskType>
BasicBatchScheduler<TaskType>::BasicBatchScheduler(
    std::unique_ptr<BatchScheduler<TaskType>> shared_scheduler_queue)
    : shared_scheduler_queue_(std::move(shared_scheduler_queue)) {}

}  // namespace serving
}  // namespace tensorflow

#endif  // TENSORFLOW_CORE_KERNELS_BATCHING_UTIL_BASIC_BATCH_SCHEDULER_H_