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Default CPU allocator no longer multiple of 64 bytes #18854

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CPUs perform best when tensors are allocated at a multiple of 64 bytes. The reason is that AVX512 instructions operate on 64 bytes at a time and memory access is more efficient when memory is aligned.

This code intends to align to a multiple of 64 bytes:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/4bb82245ee5fcbfd32da6461f7b0770ae3c2d9b6/src/storage/cpu_device_storage.h#L54-L56

However, the above code pedantically only controls overall alignment of memory blocks, not the storage managers that divvy them up. Commit 3ef00b8 broke 64-byte alignment in the default storage manager.

To Reproduce

  1. Add the line
  CHECK_EQ(reinterpret_cast<intptr_t>(handle->dptr) % 64, 0);

here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/4bb82245ee5fcbfd32da6461f7b0770ae3c2d9b6/src/storage/storage.cc#L205
2. Compile MXNet including MKLDNN (otherwise 16-byte alignment is allowed though in my opinion it shouldn't be, since compilers can still vectorize without MKLDNN).
3. Use MXNet to compute something (and be sure to print it out to actually force things to happen). Do this often enough and you'll get errors from the above check.

Note that doing the same on 2abf0b8 works successfully without error.

cc @andrei5055 @pengzhao-intel

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