Add support for MPS (Metal Performance Shaders) - #72
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe GPU monitor detects Apple Silicon MPS availability and reports MPS memory snapshots. GPU enumeration combines NVML devices with MPS data. Lab audio analysis now offers an MPS GPU option. ChangesMPS GPU Support
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change can expose MPS on unsupported systems and can report inaccurate GPU memory or device information, potentially causing analysis failures or incorrect resource selection. These bounded runtime and correctness issues should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GPUMonitor
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GPUMonitor->>NVML: Enumerate devices when available
NVML-->>GPUMonitor: Return NVML devices or enumeration errors
GPUMonitor->>PyTorchMPS: Check MPS availability and memory
PyTorchMPS-->>GPUMonitor: Return an MPS snapshot when available
GPUMonitor-->>GPUMonitor: Combine NVML and MPS results
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In `@frontend/index.html`:
- Line 2062: Gate the MPS option and selection flow on actual MPS availability
for mid and sas modes. Update the logic associated with mode selection and
device resolution, including _resolve_device or the separate_stems task setup,
so an unavailable explicit mps choice is hidden/disabled or rejected before the
background task is created; preserve valid MPS selection behavior.
In `@sidestep_engine/gui/gpu_monitor.py`:
- Around line 94-100: Update the exception handler around GPU enumeration to
catch only pynvml.NVMLError rather than Exception, allowing unexpected errors
from _snapshot_one, such as UnicodeDecodeError, to propagate through the
existing GPU read error path instead of triggering MPS or empty-GPU fallback.
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…xceptions that should bubble up.
…UDA + MPS devices when both are present.
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In `@sidestep_engine/gui/gpu_monitor.py`:
- Around line 95-97: Update the GPU enumeration flow around _snapshot_one and
available_gpus so each device index is processed individually, successful
snapshots are appended immediately, and per-device pynvml.NVMLError exceptions
are handled without discarding earlier results. Retain the outer exception
handler for failures from nvmlDeviceGetCount().
- Around line 99-100: Update get_all_gpus so exceptions from _get_mps_snapshot
are caught and logged independently after NVML collection, allowing valid NVML
entries to be returned instead of propagating the failure. Add a regression test
covering MPS snapshot failure while preserving the collected NVML GPUs.
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…racefully handle case where one or more fails to load.
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53-55: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRepresent unsupported MPS telemetry as unavailable, not zero.
The snapshot reports
0for utilization, temperature, and power.server.pyserializes these fields directly, so consumers can display false measurements such as0°Cor0 W. ReturnNoneor omit unsupported fields, then update consumers to render them as unavailable.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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44-52: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDo not expose MPS working-set values as total VRAM.
When
_is_mps_available()is true,_get_mps_snapshot()maps process driver allocation, including cached allocations, tovram_used_mband the recommended maximum working-set size tovram_total_mb. The API and frontend use these fields as equivalent used/total VRAM values, which can produce misleading usage ratios and capacity estimates. Rename or document the MPS fields, or provide compatible device-memory values.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@sidestep_engine/gui/gpu_monitor.py`:
- Around line 53-55: Update the GPU snapshot fields in the monitor’s MPS
telemetry path so unsupported utilization, temperature, and power values are
represented as unavailable rather than zero. Adjust the server.py serialization
and downstream rendering to preserve and display unavailable values instead of
false measurements, while keeping supported telemetry behavior unchanged.
- Around line 44-52: The _get_mps_snapshot function currently exposes MPS driver
allocation and recommended working-set values through generic vram_used_mb and
vram_total_mb fields. Replace these with clearly MPS-specific fields or provide
genuinely compatible device-memory values, and update any consumers of the
snapshot so usage ratios and capacity estimates do not interpret working-set
metrics as total VRAM.
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…Mac GPUs, and use assign dynamic index in case CUDA + MPS devices exist together.
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In `@sidestep_engine/gui/gpu_monitor.py`:
- Around line 53-55: Update the unavailable-value defaults for utilization,
temperature, and power_draw_w to return the exact string "Not available" without
trailing spaces.
- Around line 103-105: Update the MPS branch in _is_mps_available to derive
gpu_index from the NVML device count or tracked allocated indexes, rather than
len(available_gpus), so failed NVML snapshots cannot cause an index collision.
- Around line 103-105: Update get_all_gpus so _get_mps_snapshot is executed
within an independent exception boundary; catch and log MPS-specific failures
without discarding the already collected NVML records, and return the NVML
results when the MPS snapshot cannot be obtained.
- Around line 44-52: Update _get_mps_snapshot so the process-scoped MPS
allocation limit is not reported as vram_free_mb; keep any process-budget values
separate and ensure estimate_vram/system_vram_used_mb receive only a true
system-wide available-memory value, or an appropriately unavailable value when
none can be obtained. Preserve the existing used and total reporting.
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| used = torch.mps.driver_allocated_memory() | ||
| limit = torch.mps.recommended_max_memory() | ||
| stats = { | ||
| "available": True, | ||
| "index": gpu_index, | ||
| "name": "Apple Silicon MPS", | ||
| "vram_used_mb": used // (1024 * 1024), | ||
| "vram_total_mb": limit // (1024 * 1024), | ||
| "vram_free_mb": max(0, (limit - used) // (1024 * 1024)), |
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In PyTorch's MPS (Metal Performance Shaders) backend, these two functions provide visibility into GPU memory usage and constraints: torch.mps.driver_allocated_memory This function returns the total GPU memory currently allocated by the Metal driver for the process, measured in bytes [1][2]. This value is comprehensive, encompassing both cached allocations held within the MPSAllocator pools and active allocations made directly by the MPS or MPSGraph frameworks [1][3]. torch.mps.recommended_max_memory This function returns the recommended maximum working set size for GPU memory, measured in bytes [4][5]. It serves as a benchmark for memory capacity, with its value derived directly from the underlying device's recommendedMaxWorkingSetSize property [4][5]. These metrics are frequently used in conjunction with MPS environment variables to manage memory limits [6]. For example, the high watermark ratio, which determines when the system enforces a hard limit on allocations, is often defined relative to this recommended maximum working set size [6]. A ratio of 1.0 corresponds exactly to the value returned by torch.mps.recommended_max_memory [6].
Citations:
- 1: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/main/generated/torch.mps.driver_allocated_memory.html
- 2: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.mps.driver_allocated_memory.md
- 3: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.3/generated/torch.mps.driver_allocated_memory.html
- 4: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.12/generated/torch.mps.recommended_max_memory.html
- 5: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/main/generated/torch.mps.recommended_max_memory.html
- 6: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/main/mps_environment_variables.html
Do not expose the remaining MPS budget as free VRAM.
_get_mps_snapshot() derives vram_free_mb from process-scoped driver_allocated_memory() and the device’s recommended working-set limit. estimate_vram() passes this value to system_vram_used_mb(), which treats it as system-wide free VRAM. When other processes consume memory, vram_verdict() can therefore overestimate the effective ceiling and return an unsafe verdict. Keep process-budget fields separate from vram_free_mb, or provide a true system-available value.
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In `@sidestep_engine/gui/gpu_monitor.py` around lines 44 - 52, Update
_get_mps_snapshot so the process-scoped MPS allocation limit is not reported as
vram_free_mb; keep any process-budget values separate and ensure
estimate_vram/system_vram_used_mb receive only a true system-wide
available-memory value, or an appropriately unavailable value when none can be
obtained. Preserve the existing used and total reporting.
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I feel that these comments are going down a rabbit hole, and also some are also contradicting earlier suggestions. I believe what we have so far in this PR is an improvement over the existing code, so I'l leave it here.
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@wnmurphy Understood. The current MPS support and reporting are an improvement over the previous behavior. I will not pursue this concern further in this pull request.
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Adds support for the MPS backend so the application can use Apple Silicon GPUs for acceleration. I saw that Mac-specific versions of torch, etc. are specified in
pyproject.toml, but the GPU isn't currently surfaced as an available option in the UI.This PR:
Allows the GUI to run with GPU acceleration on modern Macs without requiring NVIDIA hardware.
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