Skip large-memory tests unless enabled on a large enough GPU by PointKernel · Pull Request #25035 · NVIDIA/cudf

PointKernel · 2026-11-03T17:22:31Z

This PR adds CUDF_TEST_REQUIRE_DEVICE_MEMORY(bytes) to the libcudf test utilities and uses it for the tests that document a large device-memory requirement. These tests are skipped unless GTEST_CUDF_LARGE_MEMORY_TESTS=1 is set, and then skipped again if the current device has less total memory than declared. Allocation failures are still reported as failures. Nightly CI sets the opt-in, so the tests keep running on large GPUs and no longer fail on smaller ones.

It converts the two 20GB join tests (declared as 24GiB), BPETest.ManySegments, and three ContiguousSplitUntypedTest cases from DISABLED_. Byte literals (_MiB, _GiB) are added in cudf_test/byte_literals.hpp. Other tests disabled for time, brittleness, or undocumented memory use are unchanged.

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- Large-memory tests now check available device memory before running and skip when requirements are not met or large-memory testing is not enabled. Requirements range from 7 GiB to 40 GiB.
- Enabled large-data tests cover contiguous column splitting, chunked packing, and string segmentation. Large-extent join tests also skip on devices with less than 24 GiB of memory.
- Nightly C++ test runs enable large-memory tests automatically; other build types do not enable them through this setting.

The change adds byte-size literals and a device-memory test requirement helper. Selected large-memory tests use the helper, and nightly C++ CI sets the environment variable that enables its checks.

Changes: Large-memory test execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define byte literals and memory checks `cpp/include/cudf_test/byte_literals.hpp`, `cpp/include/cudf_test/large_memory.hpp`	The new byte literals convert binary-size values to byte counts. The memory helper checks the environment variable and CUDA total memory. The macro skips a test when the helper returns a reason.
Apply memory checks to selected tests `cpp/tests/copying/split_tests.cpp`, `cpp/tests/join/distinct_join_tests.cpp`, `cpp/tests/join/semi_anti_join_tests.cpp`, `cpp/tests/large_strings/bpe_tests.cpp`	Selected tests require device-memory thresholds of 7, 24, 25, or 40 GiB. Previously disabled split and BPE tests are enabled. The join tests add memory requirements to their existing checks.
Enable memory checks in nightly CI `ci/test_cpp.sh`	The script exports `GTEST_CUDF_LARGE_MEMORY_TESTS=1` for nightly builds.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 35e4b

The change gates large-memory tests by an opt-in flag and device capacity. One test helper ignores CUDA copy errors, which can make a failure in a newly enabled large-memory test harder to diagnose. This is a small follow-up and does not threaten production behavior.

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Title check		The title names the main change: tests that need large device memory now skip unless the opt-in variable is set and the GPU is large enough. The summary describes the same gating through GTEST_CUDF_LA…
Description check		The description covers the changeset. It explains the new device-memory skip macro, the GTEST_CUDF_LARGE_MEMORY_TESTS opt-in, the nightly CI setting, the tests converted from DISABLED_, and the byte l…
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The title names the main change: tests that need large device memory now skip unless the opt-in variable is set and the GPU is large enough. The summary describes the same gating through GTEST_CUDF_LARGE_MEMORY_TESTS and the device-memory macro, and the title matches it.

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Reposting my request from Slack:

Do we actually enable our disabled tests anywhere? Could we make sure they run in nightlies on the jobs where we we detect that the GPUs are "big enough" (by passing `gtest_also_run_disabled_tests )?

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bdice · 2026-11-05T00:22:36Z

+inline std::string large_memory_skip_reason(std::size_t bytes)
+{
+  auto const* env = std::getenv("GTEST_CUDF_LARGE_MEMORY_TESTS");
+  if (env == nullptr or std::string{env} != "1") {


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Minor · Check the CUDA copy result in do_chunked_pack. · split_tests.cpp:1394-1398

cpp/tests/copying/split_tests.cpp:1394-1398
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Check the CUDA copy result in do_chunked_pack.

do_chunked_pack discards the return value of cudaMemcpyAsync. This PR enables VeryLargeColumnTestChunked, which calls this helper. A failed copy can leave final_buff incomplete, and the test then reports a misleading later failure. The guidelines for cpp/** require error checks on every CUDA call.

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-    cudaMemcpyAsync((uint8_t*)final_buff.data() + final_buff_offset,
-                    bounce_buff.data(),
-                    bytes_copied,
-                    cudaMemcpyDefault,
-                    cudf::get_default_stream().get());
+    CUDF_CUDA_TRY(cudaMemcpyAsync((uint8_t*)final_buff.data() + final_buff_offset,
+                                  bounce_buff.data(),
+                                  bytes_copied,
+                                  cudaMemcpyDefault,
+                                  cudf::get_default_stream().get()));

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wence- · 2026-11-06T13:56:38Z

+constexpr unsigned long long operator""_TiB(unsigned long long const val) { return tera * val; }
+constexpr unsigned long long operator""_PiB(unsigned long long const val) { return peta * val; }


Feels like we probably don't need a petabyte suffix ?

Let's keep it for alignment with RMM (from where this is copied). There, we use _PiB in tests for "impossibly large" amounts of memory.

vyasr · 2026-11-09T22:58:52Z

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Disable large-memory join extent overflow tests

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Merge branch 'main' into disable-large-extent-join-tests

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		constexpr unsigned long long operator""_TiB(unsigned long long const val) { return tera * val; }
		constexpr unsigned long long operator""_PiB(unsigned long long const val) { return peta * val; }

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