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TensorRT Execution Provider

The TensorRT execution provider in the ONNX Runtime makes use of NVIDIA’s TensorRT Deep Learning inferencing engine to accelerate ONNX model in their family of GPUs. Microsoft and NVIDIA worked closely to integrate the TensorRT execution provider with ONNX Runtime.

With the TensorRT execution provider, the ONNX Runtime delivers better inferencing performance on the same hardware compared to generic GPU acceleration.

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Build

The TensorRT execution provider for ONNX Runtime is built and tested with TensorRT 7.1.3.4.

Using the TensorRT execution provider

C/C++ 

Ort::Env env = Ort::Env{ORT_LOGGING_LEVEL_ERROR, "Default"};
Ort::SessionOptions sf;
int device_id = 0;
Ort::ThrowOnError(OrtSessionOptionsAppendExecutionProvider_Tensorrt(sf, device_id));
Ort::ThrowOnError(OrtSessionOptionsAppendExecutionProvider_CUDA(sf, device_id));
Ort::Session session(env, model_path, sf);

The C API details are here.

Shape Inference for TensorRT Subgraphs

If some operators in the model are not supported by TensorRT, ONNX Runtime will partition the graph and only send supported subgraphs to TensorRT execution provider. Because TensorRT requires that all inputs of the subgraphs have shape specified, ONNX Runtime will throw error if there is no input shape info. In this case please run shape inference for the entire model first by running script here.

Sample

This example shows how to run Faster R-CNN model on TensorRT execution provider,

First, download Faster R-CNN onnx model from onnx model zoo here.

Second, infer shapes in the model by running shape inference script here,

python symbolic_shape_infer.py --input /path/to/onnx/model/model.onnx --output /path/to/onnx/model/new_model.onnx --auto_merge

Third, replace original model with the new model and run onnx_test_runner tool under ONNX Runtime build directory,

./onnx_test_runner -e tensorrt /path/to/onnx/model/

Python

When using the Python wheel from the ONNX Runtime build with TensorRT execution provider, it will be automatically prioritized over the default GPU or CPU execution providers. There is no need to separately register the execution provider. Python APIs details are .

Python Sample

Please see this Notebook for an example of running a model on GPU using ONNX Runtime through Azure Machine Learning Services.

Performance Tuning

For performance tuning, please see guidance on this page: ONNX Runtime Perf Tuning

When/if using onnxruntime_perf_test, use the flag -e tensorrt

Configuring environment variables

There are several environment variables for TensorRT execution provider.

  • ORT_TENSORRT_MAX_WORKSPACE_SIZE: maximum workspace size for TensorRT engine. Default value: 1073741824 (1GB).

  • ORT_TENSORRT_MAX_PARTITION_ITERATIONS: maximum number of iterations allowed in model partitioning for TensorRT. If target model can’t be successfully partitioned when the maximum number of iterations is reached, the whole model will fall back to other execution providers such as CUDA or CPU. Default value: 1000.

  • ORT_TENSORRT_MIN_SUBGRAPH_SIZE: minimum node size in a subgraph after partitioning. Subgraphs with smaller size will fall back to other execution providers. Default value: 1.

  • ORT_TENSORRT_FP16_ENABLE: Enable FP16 mode in TensorRT. 1: enabled, 0: disabled. Default value: 0.

  • ORT_TENSORRT_INT8_ENABLE: Enable INT8 mode in TensorRT. 1: enabled, 0: disabled. Default value: 0.

  • ORT_TENSORRT_INT8_CALIBRATION_TABLE_NAME: Specify INT8 calibration table file name. By default the name is “INT8_calibration_table”.

  • ORT_TENSORRT_INT8_USE_NATIVE_CALIBRATION_TABLE: Select what calibration table is used. If 1, native TensorRT generated calibration table is used; if 0, ONNXRUNTIME tool generated calibration table is used. Default value: 0. **Note: Please copy up-to-date calibration table file to ORT_TENSORRT_CACHE_PATH before inference. Calibration table is specific to models and calibration data sets. Whenever new calibration table is generated, old file in the path should be cleaned up or be replaced.

  • ORT_TENSORRT_ENGINE_CACHE_ENABLE: Enable TensorRT engine caching. The purpose of using engine caching is to save engine build time in the cases that TensorRT may take long time to optimize and build engine. Engine will be cached after it’s built at the first time so that next time when inference session is created the engine can be loaded directly from cache. In order to validate that the loaded engine is usable for current inference, engine profile is also cached and loaded along with engine. If current input shapes are in the range of the engine profile, that means the loaded engine can be safely used. Otherwise if input shapes are out of range, profile cache will be updated to cover the new shape and engine will be recreated based on the new profile (and also refreshed in the engine cache). Note each engine is created for specific settings such as precision (FP32/FP16/INT8 etc), workspace, profiles etc, and specific GPUs and it’s not portable, so it’s essential to make sure those settings are not changing, otherwise the engines need to be rebuilt and cached again. 1: enabled, 0: disabled. Default value: 0. Warning: Please clean up any old engine and profile cache files (.engine and .profile) if any of the following changes:
    • Model changes (if there are any changes to the model topology, opset version etc.)
    • ORT version changes (i.e. moving from ORT version 1.4 to 1.5)
    • TensorRT version changes (i.e. moving from TensorRT 7.0 to 7.1)
    • Hardware changes. (Engine and profile files are not portable and optimized for specific Nvidia hardware)

  • ORT_TENSORRT_CACHE_PATH: Specify path for TensorRT engine and profile files if ORT_TENSORRT_ENGINE_CACHE_ENABLE is 1, or path for INT8 calibration table file if ORT_TENSORRT_INT8_ENABLE is 1.

  • ORT_TENSORRT_DUMP_SUBGRAPHS: Dumps the subgraphs that are transformed into TRT engines in onnx format to the filesystem. This can help debugging subgraphs, e.g. by using trtexec --onnx my_model.onnx and check the outputs of the parser. 1: enabled, 0: disabled. Default value: 0.

One can override default values by setting environment variables ORT_TENSORRT_MAX_WORKSPACE_SIZE, ORT_TENSORRT_MAX_PARTITION_ITERATIONS, ORT_TENSORRT_MIN_SUBGRAPH_SIZE, ORT_TENSORRT_FP16_ENABLE, ORT_TENSORRT_INT8_ENABLE, ORT_TENSORRT_INT8_CALIBRATION_TABLE_NAME, ORT_TENSORRT_INT8_USE_NATIVE_CALIBRATION_TABLE, ORT_TENSORRT_ENGINE_CACHE_ENABLE, ORT_TENSORRT_CACHE_PATH and ORT_TENSORRT_DUMP_SUBGRAPHS. e.g. on Linux

override default max workspace size to 2GB

export ORT_TENSORRT_MAX_WORKSPACE_SIZE=2147483648

override default maximum number of iterations to 10

export ORT_TENSORRT_MAX_PARTITION_ITERATIONS=10

override default minimum subgraph node size to 5

export ORT_TENSORRT_MIN_SUBGRAPH_SIZE=5

Enable FP16 mode in TensorRT

export ORT_TENSORRT_FP16_ENABLE=1

Enable INT8 mode in TensorRT

export ORT_TENSORRT_INT8_ENABLE=1

Use native TensorRT calibration table

export ORT_TENSORRT_INT8_USE_NATIVE_CALIBRATION_TABLE=1

Enable TensorRT engine caching

export ORT_TENSORRT_ENGINE_CACHE_ENABLE=1

  • Please Note warning above. This feature is experimental. Engine cache files must be invalidated if there are any changes to the model, ORT version, TensorRT version or if the underlying hardware changes. Engine files are not portable across devices.

Specify TensorRT cache path

export ORT_TENSORRT_CACHE_PATH=”/path/to/cache”

Dump out subgraphs to run on TensorRT

export ORT_TENSORRT_DUMP_SUBGRAPHS = 1