prepare dataset outside of child processes

Author: NihalHarish

tests/zero_code_change/test_pytorch_multiprocessing.py

@@ -39,27 +39,17 @@ def forward(self, x):
         return F.log_softmax(x, dim=1)
 
 
-def train(rank, model, device, dataloader_kwargs):
+def train(rank, model, device, data_set, dataloader_kwargs):
     # Training Settings
+
     batch_size = 64
     epochs = 1
     lr = 0.01
     momentum = 0.5
 
     torch.manual_seed(1 + rank)
     train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(
-        datasets.MNIST(
-            data_dir,
-            train=True,
-            download=True,
-            transform=transforms.Compose(
-                [transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.1307,), (0.3081,))]
-            ),
-        ),
-        batch_size=batch_size,
-        shuffle=True,
-        num_workers=1,
-        **dataloader_kwargs
+        data_set, batch_size=batch_size, shuffle=True, num_workers=1, **dataloader_kwargs
     )
 
     optimizer = optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=lr, momentum=momentum)
@@ -85,6 +75,17 @@ def test_no_failure_with_torch_mp(out_dir):
     path = str(path)
     os.environ["SMDEBUG_CONFIG_FILE_PATH"] = path
     device = "cpu"
+
+    # clear data_dir before saving to it
+    shutil.rmtree(data_dir, ignore_errors=True)
+    data_set = datasets.MNIST(
+        data_dir,
+        train=True,
+        download=True,
+        transform=transforms.Compose(
+            [transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.1307,), (0.3081,))]
+        ),
+    )
     dataloader_kwargs = {}
     cpu_count = 2 if mp.cpu_count() > 2 else mp.cpu_count()
 
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ def test_no_failure_with_torch_mp(out_dir):
 
     processes = []
     for rank in range(cpu_count):
-        p = mp.Process(target=train, args=(rank, model, device, dataloader_kwargs))
+        p = mp.Process(target=train, args=(rank, model, device, data_set, dataloader_kwargs))
         # We first train the model across `num_processes` processes
         p.start()
         processes.append(p)