onnxruntime/docs/NotesOnThreading.md
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Add Threadpool::TrySimpleParallelFor (#3759)
* Add TrySimpleParallerFor so that there's a path with OpenMP awareness for SimpleParallelFor. Makes it consistent with [Try]BatchParallelFor and [Try]ParallelFor.
Update TopK to check for the number of threads better, and to use TrySimpleParallelFor.

* Update doco to mention TrySimpleParallelFor
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Notes on Threading in ORT

This document is intended for ORT developers.

ORT allows the usage of either OpenMP or non-OpenMP (ORT) threads for execution. Threadpool management is abstracted behind: (1) ThreadPool class in threadpool.h and (2) functions in thread_utils.h.

When developing an op, please use these abstractions to parallelize your code. These abstractions centralize 2 things. When OpenMP is enabled, they resort to using OpenMP. When OpenMP is disabled they resort to sequential execution if the threadpool ptr is NULL or schedule the tasks on the threadpool otherwise.

Examples of these abstractions are: (threadpool.h has more documentation for these)

  • TryBatchParallelFor
  • TryParallelFor
  • TrySimpleParallelFor
  • static version of NumThreads

Please do not write #ifdef pragma omp in operator code.

For intra op parallelism ORT users can use either OpenMP or ORT threadpool. The choice of using OpenMP is indicated by building ORT with --use_openmp switch. For inter op parallelism, however, we always use the ORT threadpool.